Exceptional bodies in early modern culture : concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal /
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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Цуврал: | Monsters & marvels
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2689123 |
Агуулга:
- 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