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Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture
Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal
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Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture
Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal
About this book
Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, 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 challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society.
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Yes, you can access Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture by Maja Bondestam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Renaissance History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- 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 âFirst Visionâ from Johann Remmelinâs 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych
- 3. The Optics of Bodily Deviance: Juan Ruiz de AlarcĂłnâs Path to Public Office
- 4. âThe Most Deformed Woman in Franceâ: Marguerite de Valoisâs Monstrous Sexuality in the Divorce satyrique
- 5. Curious, Useful and Important: Bayleâs âHermaphroditesâ 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, 1691â1724
- Afterword
- Index