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If we go back a little further, in Old and Middle French, the word gauche is derived from a Frankish verb wankjan which means to vacillate, either, “across”, “bypassed” or even “which has lost its shape”.
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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
Direction and script: Laurent Turcot
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0:00 • Introduction
3:33 • Why the right?
7:26 • The Bible and the Middle Ages
12:52 • Repression and civility
16:54 • 19th century
19:38 • 20th century
21:03 • Today
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For further:
Pierre-Michel Bertrand, History of left-handers, people upside down, Paris, Imago, 2001.
James Hall, The Sinister Side. How left-right Symbolism shaped Western Art, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Michel Pastoureau, "All Left-Handers Are Red", Le Genre Humain, vol. 1, no. 16-17, 1988, p. 343-354.
Robert Couzin, Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2021.
Chris McManus, Mike Nicholls & Giorgio Vallortigara, “Introduction: The right hand and the left hand of history”, Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Volume 15, 2010, p. 1-3.
V. Llaurens, M. Raymond and C. Faurie "Review: Why are some people left-handed? An evolutionary perspective" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2009) 364, 881-894
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