“…In late antique Greece, people who lived in different climates were believed to have different bodies and different behavioral dispositions due to unequal climatic influence. Authors whose works are indebted to Greek climate theory include Gerald of Wales, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Albert the Great, al-Masʿudi, and Ibn Khaldun (Akbari 2009;Bartlett 2001;Hermes 2012). Instructors may discuss correspondences and divergences between the schemes adopted by these (and other) authors, as well as between medieval and modern body-centered notions of race.…”