Cel My project will consider several examples of natural or artificial fools, clowns, idiots portrayed in the literary production of England from 1500 to 1640 and will investigate how early modern notions of intellectual deficiency primarily in medicine but also in society shaped the creation of those same figures. My literary corpus will include not only dramatic texts but also jestbooks, which notably offer a wealth of information on real or fantastic fools of the time, and poetical works. Folly in the sense of lack of wit, rather than the loss of it – which is the definition of madness – will be my primary focus. While the theme of madness in connection with early modern literature has been explored at length, the same cannot be said for cognitive disability or lack of intelligence. The main reason for this is that only recently have a small number of scholars started to discuss and bring together historical, medical and legal notions of natural folly in the early modern period. In the past, remarkable attempts at historicizing natural folly have bordered into discourses on madness and analogue mental disorders thus blurring the difference between the two conditions, the same difference that Renaissance legislation actually sought to define. In the wake of very recent trends in disability studies, therefore, I will use legal but especially medical theories of foolishness and idiocy to explore the characters of my corpus and to highlight, on a scientific and social basis, their separate nature from those conceived of as lunatics. Furthermore, because the exploration of intellectual disability in my period of interest is relatively a new field, I expect to find in the fools of my corpus hints to theories or assumptions that have not been discussed yet. Dziedzina nauki medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepsychiatryhumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorymodern historyhumanitieslanguages and literatureliterature studiesliterary genresessayssocial scienceslaw Program(-y) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Temat(-y) MSCA-IF-2016 - Individual Fellowships Zaproszenie do składania wniosków H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF Koordynator THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Wkład UE netto € 183 454,80 Adres SUSSEX HOUSE FALMER BN1 9RH Brighton Zjednoczone Królestwo Zobacz na mapie Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex Brighton and Hove Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Uczestnictwo w unijnych programach w zakresie badań i innowacji Opens in new window sieć współpracy HORIZON Opens in new window Koszt całkowity € 183 454,80