Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
Número de páginas: 294 págs. 15.6 x 23.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 14-02-2023
EAN: 9789463721561
ISBN: 978-94-6372-156-1
Precio (sin IVA): 152,44 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 158,54 €
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental impairments, with the papacy issuing dispensations allowing some supplicants to adapt their clerical missions according to their abilities. Petitions and papal letters lie at intersection of authorized, institutional policy and practical sources chronicling the lived experiences of disabled people in the Middle Ages. As such, they constitute an excellent analytical laboratory in which to study medieval disability in its relation to the papacy as an institution, alongside the impact of official ecclesiastical judgments on disabled lives.