Irina Metzler. Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

2016 ◽  
pp. jrw026
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Pfau
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals Intellectual disability: an Italian perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-74
Author(s):  
Giampaolo La Malfa ◽  
Pierluigi Cabras
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Middle Ages

Italy is a country that has a very long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages, of offering assistance to people with all kinds of disabilities. The approach taken to intellectual disability in recent times can be divided into two periods: before and after the enactment of Law 180 in 1978. That law set in train a profound reform of Italy's public sector psychiatric care, which principally involved the closure of the psychiatric hospitals and the establishment of a system of community care.

scholarly journals From Dustbin to Disruption

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Spagnuolo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The Middle Ages

Goodey, C. F. A History of Intelligence and “Intellectual Disability”: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (New York: Routledge, 2011).Goodey, C.F. Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future (New York: Routledge, 2016).Metzler, Irina. Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016).

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