TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bondestam,Maja
AU  - Cotton,Parker
AU  - Holmberg,Tove Paulsson
AU  - Kavvadia,Maria
AU  - Long,Kathleen
AU  - Moore,Rosemary
AU  - Piñar,Pablo García
AU  - Tresfels,Cécile
TI  - Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture: Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal 
T2  - Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
SN  - 9789048552375
AV  - GR825 .E833 2020
U1  - 301.4 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Abnormalities, Human
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Abnormalities, Human, in literature
KW  - Monsters in literature
KW  - Monsters
KW  - AUP Wetenschappelijk
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies
KW  - Health and Medicine
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Western
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - early modern, culture, monstrosity, bodies, normalization
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth-, seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, virtue and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena, and hybrids of different kinds are examined in a period before all deviances became normalized, in the sense, close and relative to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it brings out the early modern culture and deepen our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552375?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552375
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048552375/original
ER  -