Reflections Upon “Speech/less in the Early Modern World”

by Dr. Olivia Formby (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) Rational speech was hailed by early modern Europeans as the clearest outward sign of reason: the capacity that set humans above all other animals. Yet speechlessness was a common part of early modern life. All human infants were born w…

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