Häftad, Engelska, 2014
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Blighted Bodies
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Beskrivning
Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.
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- Utgivningsdatum: 2014-08-15
- Mått: 156 x 234 x 9 mm
- Vikt: 270 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 168
- Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN: 9780748695881
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Kristina L. Richardson is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Münster and Bonn in Germany.
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Richardson has written an original and highly learned first book that reveals much about the cultural construction of difference and disability and about scholarly friendships and communities that shaped that culture.
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