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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...
Join us for our first reading group session, where we will discuss Sami Schalk, “Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies” (2013), published in Disability Studies Quarterly. Open access: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v33i2.3705 In this partly personal and partly theoretical article, Sami Schalk explores how a nondisabled scholar might cultivate an ethical and politically engaged relationship to disability...
We are delighted to announce the first event in our series: an invited lecture by Prof. Glenn Peers, exploring questions of community, embodiment, and difference across film and Byzantine art. Title: Community and Difference: Freaks and Byzantine ‘Healing’ Abstract: Nearly every film dealing with disability falls into the error of the ‘narrative prosthetic’, wherein another...
Want to learn more about the Byzantine Disability Hub and the people behind it? Join us for a virtual coffee hour! We will tell you more about our events and future planning and look forward to learning more about your interests. Fill out the Contact form on the website and we will send you the...
Disability is central to Byzantine history. From emperors like Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118) who spoke with a stutter, to scholars like Gregorios Antiochos whose chronic illness left him with a weakened body, to all those who were punished with mutilation and blindness, disabled people were present and visible across Byzantine society. Impaired bodies also...