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Carraro, Silvia, "Emotions and Disability in Late Medieval Venice (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries)", Journal of Medieval History, 51/2 [Medieval Histories of Disability and Emotions, Dubourg, Ninon - Scalenghe, Sara - Verstraete, Pieter, eds.] (2025), 237-252.
- Resum
- Medieval laws used terms associated with fear and disgust to create a negative image of people with disabilities. Adopting a methodology rooted in microhistory, this essay examines how people with disabilities responded to this terminology by strategically evoking emotions to their advantage and shaping societal attitudes. Specifically, it focuses on Venice between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, where the sense of loyalty and reciprocity towards the state provided the ideal basis for the founding of the confraternities of the blind and the lame. It analyses how people with disabilities employed emotions both inside and outside these associations to legitimise their presence in the city and secure a dignified existence. This investigation offers new insights into the role of emotions in shaping social attitudes towards disability and underscores the active role people with disabilities played in this process. This article is part of a special issue, ‘Medieval Histories of Disability and Emotions'.
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- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/030441 ...
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