Disabilities in Roman Antiquity
Disparate Bodies A Capite ad Calcem
Christian Laes Free University of Brussels, University of Antwerp, Chris Goodey The Open University, M. Lynn Rose Truman State University
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Biographical note
Christian Laes, Ph.D. (2004), Catholic University of Leuven, is Associate Professor of Latin and ancient history at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Antwerp. He has published five monographs and over fifty international contributions on the human life course in Roman antiquity. Childhood, youth, old age, marriage and sexuality as well as disabilities are the main focuses of his scholarly work.
Chris F. Goodey, Ph.D., has researched and published on the history of ‘intellectual disability’, including the ethical and social implications of the concept, for more than 20 years. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. He formerly held teaching and research posts at Ruskin College, Oxford, the Open University and the University of London Institute of Education. He is currently an independent consultant on learning disability in the UK.
M. Lynn Rose, Ph.D, is Professor of History at Truman State University. She teaches ancient history and history of disabilities. Her monograph The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece was the first to systematically study the topic for the Greek world.
Contributors: Patricia Clark, Bert Gevaert, Chris F. Goodey, Danielle Gourevitch, Emma-Jayne Graham, Lutz Graumann, Cornelia B. Horn, Christian Laes, Alex Mitchel, Martha L. Rose, Evelyn Samama, Lisa Trentin.
Chris F. Goodey, Ph.D., has researched and published on the history of ‘intellectual disability’, including the ethical and social implications of the concept, for more than 20 years. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. He formerly held teaching and research posts at Ruskin College, Oxford, the Open University and the University of London Institute of Education. He is currently an independent consultant on learning disability in the UK.
M. Lynn Rose, Ph.D, is Professor of History at Truman State University. She teaches ancient history and history of disabilities. Her monograph The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece was the first to systematically study the topic for the Greek world.
Contributors: Patricia Clark, Bert Gevaert, Chris F. Goodey, Danielle Gourevitch, Emma-Jayne Graham, Lutz Graumann, Cornelia B. Horn, Christian Laes, Alex Mitchel, Martha L. Rose, Evelyn Samama, Lisa Trentin.
Readership
All interested in the socio-cultural history of the Roman world, and anyone concerned with disability history in general.
Table of contents
1. Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem. Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity
Christian Laes, Chris F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
2. Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity
Chris F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
3. Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix
Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose
4. Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire
Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux
4.1. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History
Christian Laes
5. Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome
Lisa Trentin
6. A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia
Cornelia B. Horn
7. Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity
Christian Laes
8. Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity
Lutz Graumann
9. What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability
Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes
10. A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings
Evelyn Samama
11. Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference
Emma-Jayne Graham
12. Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines
Alex Mitchell
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX LOCORUM
Christian Laes, Chris F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
2. Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity
Chris F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
3. Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix
Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose
4. Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire
Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux
4.1. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History
Christian Laes
5. Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome
Lisa Trentin
6. A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia
Cornelia B. Horn
7. Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity
Christian Laes
8. Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity
Lutz Graumann
9. What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability
Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes
10. A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings
Evelyn Samama
11. Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference
Emma-Jayne Graham
12. Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines
Alex Mitchell
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX LOCORUM
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