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A BIBLIOGRAPHY
5th version,
January 2017.
Christian Laes
Given the vagueness of the term as well as the ever expanding scholarship on
Antiquity, compiling a 'complete' bibliography on disability in the ancient world
would prove to be an impossible or at least an herculean task.
This internet publication is therefore only meant as a working tool for scholars
in the field. You are kindly invited to send additions or corrections - also
offprints are welcomed.
In the present list, some publications concerning later periods have been
included, mainly because they are of importance for the study of disability in the
ancient world. Needless to say, also this addition is somehow arbitrary.
I am most grateful for the additions and suggestions which have been sent since
the publication of the first version. Special thanks are due to Danielle
Gourevitch and M. Miles for extensive correspondence on the matter.
1
Contact address for sending publications:
Universiteit Antwerpen
Grote Kauwenberg 18 (D 320)
B-2000 Antwerpen
christian.laes@uantwerpen.be
2
J. Z. Abrams, Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the
Tanach through the Bavli, Washington DC, 1998.
M. C. Albl, "'Are Any Among You Sick?' The Health Care System in the Letter
of James", Journal of Biblical Literature 121, 1 (2002) 123-143
S. B. Aleshire, The Athenian Asklepieion: The People, the Inscriptions, and the
Inventories, Amsterdam 1989.
3
A. Allélly, "Les enfants malformés et handicapés à Rome sous le Principat",
REA 106, 1 (2004) 73-101.
A. Allély, "La parole retrouvée du fils de Crésus à travers les sources grecques
et latines: étude philologique et anthropologique", Latomus 68 (2009) 16-34.
4
L. Arseneault, M. Cannon, H. L. Fisher, G. Polanczyk, T. E. Moffit, A. Caspi,
"Childhood Trauma and Children's Emerging Psychotic Symptoms: a
Genetically Sensitive Longitudinal Cohort Study", AJPsy 168 (2011) 65-72.
M. Balberg, "In and Out the Body: the Significance of Intestinal Disease in
Rabbinic Literature", Journal of Late Antiquity 8, 2 (2015) 273-287.
5
A. A. Barb, "The survival of magic arts", in A. Momigliano (ed.), The Conflict
between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century, Oxford 1963, 100-
125.
6
J. Wats Belser, L. Lehmhaus, " Disability in Rabbinic Judaism", in Laes (2017)
434-451.
T. Benediktson, "Some more Lore and Facts about Ancient Epilepsy, mostly
from "Caligula's Phobias and Philias: Fear of Seizure?"", CJ 87, 2 (1991-92)
159-163.
7
S. Boehringer, ""Ces monstres de femmes." Topique des thaumata dans les
discours sur l’homosexualité féminine aux premiers siècles de notre ère", in
Bianchi, Thévenaz (2004) 75-98.
S. E. Bond, ""As Trainers for the Healthy": Massage Therapists, Anointers, and
Healing in the Late Latin West", Journal of Late Antiquity 8, 2 (2015) 386-404.
S. E. Bond, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, " Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in
Roman Satire", in Laes (2017) 222-232.
M. Bregman, "The Parable of the Lame and the Blind: Epiphanius' Quotation
from an apocryphon of Ezekiel", JThS 42 (1991) 125-138.
8
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A. Z. Bryen, A. Wypustek, "Gemellus' Evil Eyes (P. Mich. VI 423-424)", GRBS
49 (2009) 535-555.
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10
G. Cernuschi, Nuovi contributi per lo studio dei connotati personali nei
documenti dell 'egitto greco-romano, Padova 2010.
11
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12
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Class and Kin in the Roman World, London, New York 2001, 52-73.
A. Crislip, Thorns in the Flesh: Ilness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity,
Philadelphia, 2013.
13
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14
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15
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M. Dillon, " Legal (and Customary?) Approaches to the Disabled in Ancient
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17
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19
G. Ferreri, "I sordomuti nella letteratura latina", A&R 9 (1906) 367-378.
J. Gager, Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World, New York
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20
R. Garland, The Eye of the Beholder. Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-
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21
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B. Gevaert, Chr. Laes, "What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and
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B. Gevaert, " Roman Perfect bodies. The Stoic View", in Laes (2017) 213-221.
22
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23
C. F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and “Intellectual Disability”. The
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24
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25
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28
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32
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