Reading Notes: the History of Blind People in France

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26 juillet 2019

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Emeline Brulé, « Reading Notes: the History of Blind People in France », Design and society, ID : 10670/1.zxz5pc


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This post is a summary of a book by Zina Weygand, The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille, with notes from Mark Peterson's book Seeing with the hands. Why focus on this history? There are many laws for the inclusion of disabled (or more specifically, blind and Deaf people), but they have not achieved their aims. Pierre Henri and Pierre Villey, both XXth century scholars, explain it by prejudice against blindness. This book explores how individual an...

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