Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 403 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780804772389
Inhalt:
A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille
Anmerkung:
Abbreviations; Foreword, by Catherine Kudlick; Preface, by Alain Corbin; Introduction; Part I: From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age: A Paradoxical Vision of Blindness and the Blind; 1. The Middle Ages; 2. The Beginning of Modern Times; 3. Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age; Part II: The Eighteenth Century: A Different Look at the Blind; 4. Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments; 5. Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired; 6. The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8047-5768-3
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Frankreich
;
Blindheit
;
Geschichte 1100-2000
DOI:
10.11126/stanford/9780804757683.001.0001
DOI:
10.1515/9780804772389
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