Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal
Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
ISBN: 978-94-6372-174-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
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Introduction (Maja Bondestam)
Chapter 1 - The Moresca Dance in Counter-Reformation Rome: Court Medicine and the Moderation of Exceptional Bodies (Maria Kavvadia)
Chapter 2 - Monsters and the Maternal Imagination: The 'First Vision' from Johann Remmelin's 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych (Rosemary Moore)
Chapter 3 - The Optics of Bodily Deviance: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's Path to Public Office (Pablo García Piñar)
Chapter 4 - 'The Most Deformed Woman in France': Marguerite de Valois's Monstrous Sexuality in the Divorce Satyrique (Cécile Tresfels)
Chapter 5 - Curious, Useful, and Important: Bayle's Hermaphrodites as Figures of Theological Inquiry (Parker Cotton)
Chapter 6 - An Education: Johannes Schefferus and the Prodigious Son of a Fisherman (Maja Bondestam)
Chapter 7 - Ambiguous and Transitional Bodies: Stillbirth in Stockholm 1691-1724 (Tove Paulsson Holmberg)
Afterword (Kathleen Long)
Works Cited
Index