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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christian Laes is Associate Professor of Latin and Ancient History at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and Adjunct Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tampere (Finland). From 2014-16, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere. He has published five monographs, four edited volumes and over seventy international contributions on the human life course in Roman and Late Antiquity. Childhood, youth, old age, family, marriage and sexuality as well as disabilities are the main focuses of his scholarly work.
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Preface and Acknowledgements Note on the Bibliography List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Disability History and the Ancient World. Past, Present and Future - Christian Laes 2. Disability and Infirmitas in the Ancient World: Demographic and Biological facts in the longue durée - April Pudsey The Ancient (Near) East 3. Disabilities from Head to Toe in Hittite Civilisation - Richard Beal 4. Mesopotamia and Israel - Edgar Kellenberger 5. Ancient Persia and Silent Disability - Omar Coloru 6. Egyptian Medicine and Disabilities: from Pharaonic to Graeco-Roman Egypt - Rosalie David 7. India: Demystifying Disability in Antiquity - M. Miles 8. Disability in Ancient China - Olivia Milburn The Greek World 9. The Greek vocabulary of disabilities - Evelyn Samama 10. Ability and Disability in Classical Athenian Oratory - Martha Lynn Rose 11. Disabilities in Comedy and Tragedy - Robert Garland 12. Legal (and Customary?) Approaches to the Disabled in Ancient Greece - Matthew Dillon 13. The Hellenistic Turn in Bodily Representations: Venting Anxiety in Terracotta Figurines - Alexandre Mitchell 14. Plutarch's 'Philosophy' of Disability: Human after All - Michiel Meeusen The Roman World 15. Roman Perfect bodies. The Stoic View - Bert Gevaert 16. Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in Roman Satire - Sarah Bond and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad 17. The 'Other' Romans: Deformed Bodies in the Visual Arts of Rome - Lisa Trentin 18. Mobility Impairment in the Sanctuaries of Early Roman Italy - Emma-Jayne Graham 19. Mental Disability? Galen on Mental Health - Chiara Thumiger 20. Madness and Mad Patients According to Caelius Aurelianus - Danielle Gourevitch 21. Disability in the Roman Digest - Peter Toohey The Late Ancient World 22. Hysterical Women? Gender and Disability in Early Christian Narrative - Anna Rebecca Solevåg 23. Augustine's Sermons and Disabilities - Martin Claes and Anthony Dupont 24. Infirmitas in Monastic Rules - Jenni Kuuliala 25. The Coptic and Ethiopic Tradition on Disabilities - Carol Downer 26. The Disability Within: Sexual Desire as Disability in Syriac Christianity - John Martens 27. The Disabled in the Byzantine Empire - Stephanos Efthymiadis 28. What Difference did Islam Make? Disease and Disability in Early Medieval North Africa - Matthew Gaumer 29. Impotent Husbands, Eunuchs and Flawed Women in Early Islamic Law - Hocine Benkheira 30. Disability in Rabbinic Judaism - Lennart Lehmhaus and Julia Watts Belser The endurance of tradition 31. Then and now. Canonical law on disabilities - Irina Metzler 32. The Imperfect body in Nazi Germany: Ancient Concepts, Modern Technologies - Toon Van Houdt Bibliography Index
Preface and Acknowledgements Note on the Bibliography List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Disability History and the Ancient World. Past, Present and Future - Christian Laes 2. Disability and Infirmitas in the Ancient World: Demographic and Biological facts in the longue durée - April Pudsey The Ancient (Near) East 3. Disabilities from Head to Toe in Hittite Civilisation - Richard Beal 4. Mesopotamia and Israel - Edgar Kellenberger 5. Ancient Persia and Silent Disability - Omar Coloru 6. Egyptian Medicine and Disabilities: from Pharaonic to Graeco-Roman Egypt - Rosalie David 7. India: Demystifying Disability in Antiquity - M. Miles 8. Disability in Ancient China - Olivia Milburn The Greek World 9. The Greek vocabulary of disabilities - Evelyn Samama 10. Ability and Disability in Classical Athenian Oratory - Martha Lynn Rose 11. Disabilities in Comedy and Tragedy - Robert Garland 12. Legal (and Customary?) Approaches to the Disabled in Ancient Greece - Matthew Dillon 13. The Hellenistic Turn in Bodily Representations: Venting Anxiety in Terracotta Figurines - Alexandre Mitchell 14. Plutarch's 'Philosophy' of Disability: Human after All - Michiel Meeusen The Roman World 15. Roman Perfect bodies. The Stoic View - Bert Gevaert 16. Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in Roman Satire - Sarah Bond and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad 17. The 'Other' Romans: Deformed Bodies in the Visual Arts of Rome - Lisa Trentin 18. Mobility Impairment in the Sanctuaries of Early Roman Italy - Emma-Jayne Graham 19. Mental Disability? Galen on Mental Health - Chiara Thumiger 20. Madness and Mad Patients According to Caelius Aurelianus - Danielle Gourevitch 21. Disability in the Roman Digest - Peter Toohey The Late Ancient World 22. Hysterical Women? Gender and Disability in Early Christian Narrative - Anna Rebecca Solevåg 23. Augustine's Sermons and Disabilities - Martin Claes and Anthony Dupont 24. Infirmitas in Monastic Rules - Jenni Kuuliala 25. The Coptic and Ethiopic Tradition on Disabilities - Carol Downer 26. The Disability Within: Sexual Desire as Disability in Syriac Christianity - John Martens 27. The Disabled in the Byzantine Empire - Stephanos Efthymiadis 28. What Difference did Islam Make? Disease and Disability in Early Medieval North Africa - Matthew Gaumer 29. Impotent Husbands, Eunuchs and Flawed Women in Early Islamic Law - Hocine Benkheira 30. Disability in Rabbinic Judaism - Lennart Lehmhaus and Julia Watts Belser The endurance of tradition 31. Then and now. Canonical law on disabilities - Irina Metzler 32. The Imperfect body in Nazi Germany: Ancient Concepts, Modern Technologies - Toon Van Houdt Bibliography Index
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