The Idea of Deafness as Disability in Renaissance Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5306157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob M Baum (0000-0003-2403-4478, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 621-652 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2023.a909533 |
| PMID | 38588300 |
| OpenAlex | W4387746348 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay assesses the degree to which the deaf were regarded as a disabled population in medical, religious, and legal thought during the Renaissance, chronologically identified with the period between approximately 1500 and 1650. The primary geographic focus rests on the German-speaking lands of central Europe. Analysis shows that the idea of deafness as a disability here was composite one, making connections between inability to hear and intellectual impairment, moral deficiency, and disease. This contrasts with recent findings elsewhere in Europe, where intellectuals were more focused on sign languages as a means of integrating the deaf into hearing society
Aesthetics · Art history · Focus (optics) · German · Late 19th century · Linguistics · Period (music) · Sign (mathematics) · Sign language · Sociology · The Renaissance · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |