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The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille PDF

409 Pages·2009·2.7 MB·English
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by Zina Weygand| 2009| 409 pages| 2.7| English

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The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand’s highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot’s emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Hauy, the great benefactor of blind people. Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.

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Author:Zina Weygand
Publication Year:2009
ISBN:9780804757683
Pages:409
Language:English
File Size:2.7
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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