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Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies a Capite AD Calcem

Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies a Capite AD Calcem

Laes, Christian
Goodey, Chris
Rose, M. Lynn

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004248315
ISBN13: 9789004248311
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 30 2013
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed.

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