54th International Congress on Medieval Studies: Kalamazoo, MI
Medieval Institute Western Michigan University 1903 W Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI, United StatesThis is a Sponsored Session: Byzantine Responses to Minorities - The Case of the Physically Impaired Sickness, disfigurement, and disability were commonplace in the Byzantine world. Yet the histories of those who did not conform to ‘able‐bodied’ norms are often left untold by Byzantinists. While eunuchs are an obvious exception to this rule, more of