disabilities from the past as possible. Knowing that there were also blind people, deaf people or people with speech defects in the past does not require any historical work at all. During my …

Were the Blind in the Roman Empire Especially Vulnerable? A Collection of Evidence. Paper presented at the "Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and …

Visual impairment (and indeed blindness) were relatively common in Ancient Rome. They had to deal with diseases such as cataracts, degeneration of vision in old age, and injuries, whether …

Mar 23, 2018 · Chapter 3 - Blindness, a ‘Fate Worse Than Death’? Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2018. Deals with material condition of visual …

the ancient Greco-Roman world. But how did the ancients understand visual impairment? How did they explain the causes and e fects of blindness (medically, socially, and religiously)? What …

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation in …

Aug 3, 2019 · One of the men was blind and the other had an unresponsive hand. Vespasian decided to let the supplicants speak. The result of their interaction would become one of the …

Jan 22, 2021 · This week, I will be writing about the concept of blind prophets and how their blindness somehow enhanced their prophetic powers. What are Prophets and Oracles? I think …

This article takes a look at disabled and physically deformed people in Roman antiquity. It first defines the term “disabled” and then examines the attitudes Roman society had towards …

The story is that the Byzantines blinded 15,000 Bulgars after the Battle of Kleidion, leaving every 100th man half-blind so he could lead the others home. How is this even possible? It makes no …

Jan 16, 2012 · The Roman emperor Vespasian ruled from A.D. 69 -79; his reign ended with his death. Writing about Vespasian some 25 years later, the Roman historian Tacitus reported a …

Aug 28, 2017 · James Holman, one of the passengers who had rushed to the deck, expected to find the Saunders-Hill wrecked to splinters. Instead he felt the boat—the whole boat—lurch …

May 25, 2024 · His unswerving commitment to Roman greatness, even as an elderly blind man, puts our own challenges in perspective. As we confront the crises of our times, we would do …

Isaac II Angelos remarkably was the only Roman Emperor who was blinded but managed to return to the throne, briefly, as a crusader puppet in 1204 before the Fourth Crusade which his …

May 22, 2021 · In this story, the healing of the blind man bridges between v21, where Jesus was very frustrated with the ‘brain deadness of His disciples’ as to His identity, to Peter’s grandiose …

King John the Blind of Bohemia was a legendary warrior who led a cavalry charge at the Battle of Crécy even though he had been blind for a decade. It didn't go well, but I think it illustrates the …

Christian persecution in the Roman Empire during the reign of Trajan: historical background for Blind Ambition, a novel by Carol Ashby

Jun 1, 2015 · Who will imagine a blind man guilty? And since the poisoned side of the blade is engraved with a snake, Cleander will know, by touch, which side is which. Caesar is poisoned, …

May 22, 2015 · Although it doesn’t seem “fair,” what that blind man needed for his eternal life was that he be blind until it came time for Christ to heal him. And his parents needed it, too, as well …