Exceptional bodies in early modern culture : concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal

Exceptional bodies in early modern culture : concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal / edited by Maja Bondestam.

Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources-including medicine, satire, play script, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders-this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies c...

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Other Authors: Bondestam, Maja (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Series:Monsters & marvels
Subjects:
Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects.
Monsters > Social aspects.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Abnormalities, Human.
Monsters.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Abnormalities, Human
Abnormalities, Human, in literature
Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects
Monsters
Monsters in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Moresca Dance in Counter- Reformation Rome: Court Medicine and the Moderation of Exceptional Bodies
  • 2. Monsters and the Maternal Imagination : The 'First Vision' from Johann Remmelin's 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych
  • 3. The Optics of Bodily Deviance : Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's Path to Public Office
  • 4. 'The Most Deformed Woman in France' : Marguerite de Valois's Monstrous Sexuality in the Divorce satyrique
  • 5. Curious, Useful and Important: Bayle's 'Hermaphrodites' as Figures of Theological Inquiry
  • 6. An Education: Johannes Schefferus and the Prodigious Son of a Fisherman
  • 7. Ambiguous and Transitional Bodies: Stillbirth in Stockholm, 1691-1724
  • Afterword
  • Index

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