Graciosi: medieval Christian attitudes to disability.
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.
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School of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine