Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, 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? This book deals with these questions.


Format Häftad Omfång 168 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Edinburgh University Press Utgivningsdatum 2014-08-31 ISBN 9780748695881