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Intellectual disability. A conceptual history, 1200–1900 Edited by Dr Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey and Timothy StaintonPublisher: Manchester University PressFormat: HardcoverThis collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. The collection is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.Published Date: January 2018Pages: 296ISBN: 978-1-5261-2531-6CONTENTS1 Introduction: the emergent critical history of intellectual disability - Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton2 Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law - Wendy J. Turner3 'Will-nots' and 'Cannots': tracing a trope in medieval thought - Irina Metzler4 'Some have it from birth, some by disposition': foolishness in medieval German literature - Janina Dillig5 Exclusion from the eucharist: the seventeenth-century church and the creation of 'intellectually' disabled people - C. F. Goodey6 'A defect in the mind': cognitive ableism in Swift's Gulliver's Travels - D. Christopher Gabbard7 The age of sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability - Tim Stainton8 Peter the 'wild boy': what Peter means to us - Katie Branch, Clemma Fleat, Nicola Grove, Tim Lumley Smith, and Robin Meader9 'Belief', 'opinion', and 'knowledge': the idiot in law in the the long eighteenth century - Simon Jarrett10 Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness - Murray K. Simpson11 Visiting Earlswood: the asylum travelogue and the shaping of 'idiocy' - Patrick McDonaghSelect bibliographyIndexMore infos on the editor website