Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Blighted Bodies

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this partic...

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1. Verfasser: Richardson, Kristina (auth)
Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh University Press 2012
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