A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment by Metzler, Irina

A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415822596)

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A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment by Metzler, Irina

A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment

$225.00
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment by Metzler, Irina

A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book covers the social history of disability in the Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of medieval disability, the volume opens up the subject of disability history prior to the modern period. The wealth, variety and significance of sources inform how law, work, age and charity affected medieval disability.



Author: Irina Metzler
ISBN-10: 0415822599
ISBN-13: 9780415822596
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2013
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d

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Choice 10/01/2013
By Irina Metzler
By Irina Metzler
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Irina Metzler studied Classical and Medieval History, gaining a doctorate from the University of Reading, honorary research affiliations with the universities of Bristol and Swansea, and was awarded a Wellcome Trust fellowship (2012). She has published widely on cultural, religious and social aspects of disability in the European Middle Ages.

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