LEADER 03554nam 2200517 450 001 9910795646303321 005 20230126223611.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048552375 035 $a(CKB)5590000000003998 035 $a(OCoLC)1224978975 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse93075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6407634 035 $a(DE-B1597)571779 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048552375 035 $a(OCoLC)1206239621 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000003998 100 $a20201215d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aExceptional bodies in early modern culture $econcepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal /$fedited by Maja Bondestam 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (201 pages) : $ccolor illustrations 225 0 $aMonsters & marvels 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a94-6372-174-6 311 $a90-485-5237-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / Maja Bondestam -- The moresca dance in Counter-Reformation Rome : court medicine and the moderation of exceptional bodies / Maria Kavvadia -- Monsters and the maternal imagination : the 'First Vision' from Johann Remmelin's 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych / Rosemary Moore -- The optics of bodily deviance : Juan Ruiz de Alarco?n's path to public office / Pablo Garci?a Pin?ar -- 'The most deformed woman in France' : Marguerite de Valois's monstrous sexuality in the Divorce satyrique / Cecile Tresfels -- Curious, useful and important : Bayle's 'hermaphrodites' as figures of theological inquiry / Parker Cotton -- An education : Johannes Schefferus and the prodigious son of a fisherman / Maja Bondestam -- Ambiguous and transitional bodies : stillbirth in Stockholm, 1691-1724 / Tove Paulsson Holmberg -- Afterword / Kathleen Long. 330 $aDrawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society. 410 0$aMonsters and marvels. 606 $aAbnormalities, Human$xSocial aspects 610 $aearly modern, culture, monstrosity, bodies, normalization. 615 0$aAbnormalities, Human$xSocial aspects. 676 $a301.4 702 $aBondestam$b Maja 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795646303321 996 $aExceptional bodies in early modern culture$93696407 997 $aUNINA