Disability in AntiquityChristian Laes This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round. Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to truly map out and explore the topic of disability in the ancient world and create new avenues of thought and research. |
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Disabilities from head to foot in Hittite civilization | |
Mesopotamia and Israel | |
Ancient Persia and silent disability | |
from pharaonic to Greco | |
demystifying disability in Antiquity | |
Mobility impairment in the sanctuaries of early Roman Italy | |
Mental disability? Galen on mental health | |
Madness and mad patients according to Caelius Aurelianus | |
Disability in the Roman Digest | |
The late ancient world | |
Hysterical women? Gender and disability in early Christian narrative | |
Augustines sermons and disability | |
Infirmitas in monastic rules | |
Disability in ancient China | |
The Greek vocabulary of disabilities | |
Ability and disability in classical Athenian oratory | |
Disabilities in tragedy and comedy | |
Legal and customary? approaches to the disabled in ancient | |
venting anxiety | |
human after | |
the Stoic view | |
Foul and fair bodies minds and poetry in Roman satire | |
deformed bodies in the visual arts of Rome | |
The Coptic and Ethiopic traditions | |
sexual desire as disability in Syriac Christianity | |
The disabled in the Byzantine Empire | |
What difference did Islam make? Disease and disability in early medieval North Africa | |
Impotent husbands eunuchs and flawed women in early Islamic | |
Disability in rabbinic Judaism | |
The endurance of tradition | |
canon law on disabilities | |
ancient concepts modern technologies | |
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