concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bondestam, Maja > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Kavvadia, Maria
- Contributor
- Moore, Rosemary
- Contributor
- Piñar, Pablo García
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 1C 2020
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, ethiek, normen, geneeskunde, filosofie, vroegmoderne periode, bundel
- Description
- This collection of essays explores how monstrosity challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the period 1500-1750 and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Based on various medicinal and philosophical primary sources, exceptional bodies in the form of e.g. prodigious births, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, and shapeshifting phenomena are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard.