Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies by Kristina L. Richardson

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Kristina L. Richardson

168 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 assu...

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