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Graciosi: medieval Christian attitudes to disability
1School of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Disability and Rehabilitation
|November 22, 1997
Abstract:
To modern people, 'disability' implies a lack or an incompleteness on the part of the person so labelled when judged by the standard of the 'complete' person. For a large section of medieval society this was not the case: the 'disabled' were seen to possess special gifts which were indicative of their privileged status as recipients of God's grace.