Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World Blighted Bodies / Kristina Richardson.
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TextPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)ISBN: 9780748645084Subject(s): Religion / Islam / History | ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: 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 particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of miniature paintings, personal letters, (auto)biographies, travel narratives, erotic poetry, religious polemics, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, you will learn about cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.
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| HV1451 .G73 2017 Take care : | HV1451 .M68 2020 Movies, music and memory : | HV1553 .U85 2003 Using survey data to study disability : | HV1559.M626 R53 2012 Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World | HV1568 .D57 2010 Disability as a fluid state | HV1568 .D57 2011 Disability and community | HV1568 .D57 2013 Disability and intersecting statuses |
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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 particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of miniature paintings, personal letters, (auto)biographies, travel narratives, erotic poetry, religious polemics, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, you will learn about cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.
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