Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World

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2 sandėlyje

Kristina Richardson

168 psl.

2014 m.

Minkštas viršelis

Brūkšninis kodas: 9780748695881

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? This book deals with these questions.