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On the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Idiot Education

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The author is unable to determine to whom belongs the credit of having first attempted the education of idiot children. Saegert, of Berlin, believed that be had demonstrated scientifically the curability of idiocy in 1846. Seguin, of Paris had made known
J. C. B. Tr, Ferdinand Kern
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“Verray Goddes Apes”: Troilus, Seynt Idiot, and Festive Culture

open access: yes, 2011
This paper examines the reference to ‘Seynt Idiot’ in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, a blasphemous caricature of the God of Love which occurs in the first book. It identifies parallels between this epithet and the mock saints found in medieval inversion
Ben Parsons (7598420)
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