Research Catalog

Title

'Madness' in the ancient world: innate or acquired? : from theoretical concepts to daily life / edited by Christian Laes and Irina Metzler.

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laes, Christian
• Metzler, Irina, 1966-

Description

360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

"This is the first book volume ever to study the 'difficult' subject of congenital, intellectual disability in the ancient world. The contributions cover the Ancient Near East, Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world, up to the late ancient period, China, the rabbinic tradition, Byzantium, the Islamic world, and the Middle Ages in the Latin West. The engaging and thought-provoking chapters combine careful textual analysis with attention to the material evidence and comparative perspectives, not the least those offered by disability history for recent periods in history." -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Antiquité et sciences humaines, 2466-5916 ; 10

Uniform Title

Antiquité et sciences humaines ; 10.

Subject

• Intellectual disability > History
• People with mental disabilities > History
• Medicine, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Hidden in plain sight or simply untraceable? The challenge of studying intellectual disability in the ancient world / Christian Laes -- 'Mad bones': tracing mental disability in the bioarchaeological record and its possible socio-economic implications in past societies / Chryssa Bourbou -- Dagger of the mind: Macedonian kings and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) / Alexandra F. Morris -- The quest for Down Syndrome (and other symptoms) in antiquity / Edgar Kellenberger -- Excluded from the kingdom or leading revolution? Môroi and the question of intellectual disability in New Testament writings / Dominika Kurek-Chomycz and Emma Swai -- Brain injusry and intellectual disability in early and medieval China: two case studies / Olivia Milburn -- The Shoteh in rabbinic sources; intellectual disability or mental illness? / Lennart Lehmhaus -- Searching for intellectual disability in Byzantium / Fotis Vasilleiou -- Fools in Arabic medicine and hospitals; medical, social and economic studies / Peter E. Pormann -- Incapacitas Mentis: medieval musings on congenital fools / Irina Metzler -- Living creatively with intellectual disabilities; a father's observations as an opportunity for historical research / Edgar Kellenberger.

Call Number

JFE 24-1368

ISBN

• 9782503601908
• 2503601901

LCCN

9782503601908

OCLC

1414536743

Title

'Madness' in the ancient world: innate or acquired? : from theoretical concepts to daily life / edited by Christian Laes and Irina Metzler.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Antiquité et sciences humaines, 2466-5916 ; 10

Antiquité et sciences humaines ; 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Laes, Christian, editor.

Metzler, Irina, 1966- editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version : 'Madness' in the ancient world: innate or acquired? Turnhout : Brepols, [2023] 9782503601915

Other Standard Identifier

9782503601908

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1368