Christian Laes (Belgium Universiteit Antwerpen)

Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first ever monograph in English on an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected. A methodological introduction is followed by a head-to-toe approach, dealing with mental problems, visual impairment, deafness, muteness, speech and mobility impairment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781316615010
• ISBN-10: 1316615014
• Artikelnr.: 62112084

Autorenporträt

Christian Laes is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Antwerp, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampere. He specialises in the socio-cultural history of the Roman and late antique worlds. His previous books include Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within (Cambridge, 2011) and Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years? (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Conception, birth and the 'crucial' first days
2. Mental and intellectual disabilities: sane or insane?
3. Blindness: 'a fate worse than death'
4. Deaf, mute and deaf-mute: a silent story
5. Speech defects: stammering history
6. Mobility impairments: history of pain and toil
Conclusions.