Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture

Maja Bondestam (red.)

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, 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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Redacteur

Maja Bondestam

Maja Bondestam is an Associate Professor in History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Her research is focused on the body in the shift from the early modern to the modern period and on medicine and natural history.
Titel
Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture
Subtitel
Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal
Redacteur
Maja Bondestam
Prijs
€ 121,99
ISBN
9789048552375
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eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
Aantal pagina's
202
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Serie
Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Categorieën
Cultural Studies
Early Modern Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Health and Medicine
Discipline
History, Art History, and Archaeology
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