A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity 9781350028531, 9781350028524, 9781350029538

A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity (Cultural Histories) 9781350028524, 9781350029538, 1350028525

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity [1] 1350028525, 9781350028524

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cultural Histories) 9781350029071, 9781350029538, 2002719038, 1350029076

The long nineteenth century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 19

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance 9781350028883, 9781350028876, 9781350029538

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age 9781350029293, 9781350029538, 1350029297

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdeter

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages 9781350028715, 9781350029538, 1350028711

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance 9781350028906, 9781350028876

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodi

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A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity 9781350079243, 9781474212298, 9781350079236

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A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity 0857853392, 9780857853394

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally

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A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity 9781350001800, 9781350179646, 9781350001916

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