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Disability in Antiquity
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|21 pages
Introduction: disabilities in the ancient world – past, present and future
chapter 2|13 pages
Disability and infirmitas in the ancient world: demographic and biological facts in the longue durée
part |2 pages
PART I The Ancient (Near) East
chapter 6|15 pages
Egyptian medicine and disabilities: from pharaonic to Greco-Roman Egypt
part |2 pages
PART II The Greek world
chapter 12|15 pages
Legal (and customary?) approaches to the disabled in ancient Greece
chapter 13|15 pages
The Hellenistic turn in bodily representations: venting anxiety in terracotta figurines
part |2 pages
PART III The Roman world
chapter 16|11 pages
Foul and fair bodies, minds, and poetry in Roman satire
part |2 pages
PART IV The late ancient world
chapter 22|13 pages
Hysterical women? Gender and disability in early Christian narrative
chapter 26|12 pages
The disability within: sexual desire as disability in Syriac Christianity
chapter 28|18 pages
What difference did Islam make? Disease and disability in early medieval North Africa
chapter 29|13 pages
Impotent husbands, eunuchs and flawed women in early Islamic law
part |2 pages
PART V The endurance of tradition