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'Madness' in the Ancient World' : innate or acquired? From theoretical concepts to daily life
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ISBN: 9782503601908 2503601901 9782503601915 Year: 2023 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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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.


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Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur Westeuropas. Band 2
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ISBN: 9783487160993 3487160994 Year: 2022 Publisher: Hildesheim : Munchen : Olms, Universitätsbibliothek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,

The court and court society in ancient monarchies
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ISBN: 9780521290135 9780521874489 0521874483 9780511482939 9780511355639 0511355637 0511482930 0521290139 1107181666 9781107181663 1281153419 9781281153418 9786611153410 6611153411 0511353995 9780511353994 1139132830 9781139132831 0511355114 9780511355110 0511354576 9780511354571 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the ruler's court from one society to another.

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