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1 online resource (507 pages) |
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Rewriting Antiquity |
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Rewriting antiquity.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: disabilities in the ancient world -- past, present and future; 2 Disability and infirmitas in the ancient world: demographic and biological facts in the longue durée; PART I The Ancient (Near) East; 3 Disabilities from head to foot in Hittite civilization; 4 Mesopotamia and Israel; 5 Ancient Persia and silent disability; 6 Egyptian medicine and disabilities: from pharaonic to Greco-Roman Egypt; 7 India: demystifying disability in Antiquity; 8 Disability in ancient China |
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PART II The Greek world9 The Greek vocabulary of disabilities; 10 Ability and disability in classical Athenian oratory; 11 Disabilities in tragedy and comedy; 12 Legal (and customary?) approaches to the disabled in ancient Greece; 13 The Hellenistic turn in bodily representations: venting anxiety in terracotta figurines; 14 Plutarch's 'philosophy' of disability: human after all; PART III The Roman world; 15 Perfect Roman bodies: the Stoic view; 16 Foul and fair bodies, minds, and poetry in Roman satire; 17 The 'other' Romans: deformed bodies in the visual arts of Rome |
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18 Mobility impairment in the sanctuaries of early Roman Italy19 Mental disability? Galen on mental health; 20 Madness and mad patients according to Caelius Aurelianus; 21 Disability in the Roman Digest; PART IV The late ancient world; 22 Hysterical women? Gender and disability in early Christian narrative; 23 Augustine's sermons and disability; 24 Infirmitas in monastic rules; 25 The Coptic and Ethiopic traditions; 26 The disability within: sexual desire as disability in Syriac Christianity; 27 The disabled in the Byzantine Empire |
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28 What difference did Islam make? Disease and disability in early medieval North Africa29 Impotent husbands, eunuchs and flawed women in early Islamic law; 30 Disability in rabbinic Judaism; PART V The endurance of tradition; 31 Then and now: canon law on disabilities; 32 The imperfect body in Nazi Germany: ancient concepts, modern technologies; Index |
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Print version record |
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People with disabilities -- History -- To 1500
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People with mental disabilities -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Classical.
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Disability studies.
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Civilization, Classical
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Disability studies
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People with disabilities
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People with mental disabilities
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317231547 |
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1317231546 |
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