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 - Part I. 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 - Part II. 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 - Part III. The Roman World. Perfect Roman 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 - Part IV. The Late Ancient World. Hysterical Women? Gender and Disability in Early Christian Narrative / Anna Rebecca Solevåg ; Augustine's Sermons and Disability / Martin Claes and Anthony Dupont ; Infirmitas in Monastic Rules / Jenni Kuuliala ; The Coptic and Ethiopic Traditions / 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
Part V. 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.