Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Renaissance Idiocy (Representing Idiocy and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern English Literature, 1500-1640)

Summary
This project discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature, 1500-1640. In particular, it is an attempt to go beyond a long-standing tradition in early...
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