Disability in Antiquity

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-51804-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 506 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Reihe: Rewriting Antiquity

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laes, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Note on the Bibliography

List of Contributors



- Introduction: Disability History and the Ancient World. Past, Present and Future - Christian Laes

- Disability and Infirmitas in the Ancient World: Demographic and Biological facts in the longue durée - April Pudsey



The Ancient (Near) East

- Disabilities from Head to Toe in Hittite Civilisation - Richard Beal

- Mesopotamia and Israel - Edgar Kellenberger

- Ancient Persia and Silent Disability - Omar Coloru

- Egyptian Medicine and Disabilities: from Pharaonic to Graeco-Roman Egypt - Rosalie David

- India: Demystifying Disability in Antiquity - M. Miles

- Disability in Ancient China - Olivia Milburn



The Greek World

- The Greek vocabulary of disabilities - Evelyn Samama

- Ability and Disability in Classical Athenian Oratory - Martha Lynn Rose

- Disabilities in Comedy and Tragedy - Robert Garland

- Legal (and Customary?) Approaches to the Disabled in Ancient Greece - Matthew Dillon

- The Hellenistic Turn in Bodily Representations: Venting Anxiety in Terracotta Figurines - Alexandre Mitchell

- Plutarch's 'Philosophy' of Disability: Human after All - Michiel Meeusen



The Roman World

- Roman Perfect bodies. The Stoic View - Bert Gevaert

- Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in Roman Satire - Sarah Bond and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad

- The 'Other' Romans: Deformed Bodies in the Visual Arts of Rome - Lisa Trentin

- Mobility Impairment in the Sanctuaries of Early Roman Italy - Emma-Jayne Graham

- Mental Disability? Galen on Mental Health - Chiara Thumiger

- Madness and Mad Patients According to Caelius Aurelianus - Danielle Gourevitch

- Disability in the Roman Digest - Peter Toohey



The Late Ancient World

- Hysterical Women? Gender and Disability in Early Christian Narrative – Anna Rebecca Solevåg

- Augustine's Sermons and Disabilities - Martin Claes and Anthony Dupont

- Infirmitas in Monastic Rules - Jenni Kuuliala

- The Coptic and Ethiopic Tradition on Disabilities - Carol Downer

- The Disability Within: Sexual Desire as Disability in Syriac Christianity - John Martens

- The Disabled in the Byzantine Empire - Stephanos Efthymiadis

- What Difference did Islam Make? Disease and Disability in Early Medieval North Africa - Matthew Gaumer

- Impotent Husbands, Eunuchs and Flawed Women in Early Islamic Law - Hocine Benkheira

- Disability in Rabbinic Judaism - Lennart Lehmhaus and Julia Watts Belser



The endurance of tradition

- Then and now. Canonical law on disabilities - Irina Metzler

- The Imperfect body in Nazi Germany: Ancient Concepts, Modern Technologies - Toon Van Houdt



Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.