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Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture - Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal (Hardcover, 0)
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Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture - Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal (Hardcover, 0)
Series: Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
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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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