“This website tries to bring together all scholars dealing with disability history of the ancient world. Quite contrary to disability studies for other periods, research into this subject has just begun to develop and specialists are few.
We hope this site will be a tool to bring scholars together, and a way to announce new developments.
We take Antiquity as spanning a broad geographical and chronological range: also disability historians of e.g. the Sumerian or Babylonian period, those focusing on Jewish or Persian culture, as well as specialists of late Antiquity, are kindly invited to join!”
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Christian Laes
Christian Laes is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester (UK) and Professor of Latin and Ancient History at the University of Antwerp (BE). He has published six monographs and over 100 international contributions on the sociocultural history of Roman and Late Antiquity. Human life course (childhood, youth, sexuality, disabilities) has been one of the focuses of his research.
Lisa Brunet
Lisa Brunet is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Basel (CH), where she is working on a research project titled ‘In nomine patris, filii et ... avi? Grandparenthood in early Christian families’, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her doctoral thesis focuses the everyday life of pagan grandparents in the Roman Empire (ca. 200 BC – ca. 400 AD). Her research interests include socio-cultural history, gender history and epigraphy.