Christian Laes

Christian Laes is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester and Professor of Ancient History and Latin at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of Children in the Roman Empire (2011), Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World (2018), and edited volumes in three of Bloomsbury's Cultural Histories series: A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity , A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity (with Ville Vuolanto) and a Cultural History of Disability in...See more

Christian Laes is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester and Professor of Ancient History and Latin at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of Children in the Roman Empire (2011), Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World (2018), and edited volumes in three of Bloomsbury's Cultural Histories series: A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity , A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity (with Ville Vuolanto) and a Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity . He is co-author, along with Johan Strubbe, of Youth in the Roman Empire (2014). See less