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Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative anthropology, this volume uniquely examines contexts and conditions of disability in the ancient world. An ...

A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality, knowledge, media and communications, children and childhood, family, community and sociability, learners and learning, teachers and teaching, literacies, and life histories. The book balances traditional approaches towards education with the new history of education that tackles the topic from a much...

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Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative anthropology, this volume uniquely examines contexts and conditions of disability in the ancient world. An ...

The first ever monograph in English on an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected. A methodological introduction is followed by a head-to-toe approach, dealing with mental problems, visual impairment, deafness, muteness, speech and mobility impairment.

This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of `antiquity¿ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of...

By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children in antiquity lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians,

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This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies.

This book uses a wide range of written and archaeological sources to explore the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome: from child emperors to children in the slums, from young magistrates to little artisans, peasants and mineworkers. It also illuminates the similarities and differences between children's lives then and their lives today.

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world--what were children's concerns, interests and beliefs--and whether we can find traces of children's own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. T...

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