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As far as I know, the mutilation of the body specifically the nose) in Byzantine culture, when committed upon a dethroned basileus, was a form of "emasculation", and it was a means of statement with regards to the inability of the deformed basileus to rule anymore.
Kevin Jang
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> But does it have anything to say about moral depravity (eg incest)
> or mental
> retardation ?
>
> BMC
>
>
> > I find nothing about birth defects in:
> >
> > Edward Peters, The Shadow King: Rex inutilis in medieval law and
> > literature (Yale UPr, 1970).
> >
> > Tom Izbicki
> >
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> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I was wondering if the fact that a heir in a county, duchy or
> even
> >> kingdom
> >> was deformed, f.i. hunchbacked, could prevent him from
> succeeding? Could
> >> that have been a biblical or canonical nono? Still a duke like
> Godfrey
> >> III
> >> of Lotharingia (+1076) was called the Hunchback. Or was that
> based on
> >> misinformation at the chronicler's-level?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Henk
> >>
> >>
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