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Byzantine Disability: Leeds IMC 2026

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Byzantine Disability, I: Religion and Representation Abstract: This panel examines how disability was imagined, narrated, and visualised across Byzantine homiletics, religious poetry, and iconography. Philagathos of Cerami’s sermons frame impairment within divine economy, as both consequence and medium of spiritual refinement. Theodore Prodromos’ Tetrasticha depict biblical disabilities not as deficiencies but as narrative events of faith, integrating...