scholarly journals Review of Fools and Idiots: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages by Irina Metzler

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine E. Smith

No abstract available.

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-74
Author(s):  
Giampaolo La Malfa ◽  
Pierluigi Cabras

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.


Author(s):  
Natalie Spagnuolo

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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