Monstrous births and visual culture in sixteenth-century Germany
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Monstrous births and visual culture in sixteenth-century Germany
（Religious cultures in the early modern world / series editors, Fernando Cervantes, Peter Marshall, Philip Soergel, no. 5）
Pickering & Chatto, 2009
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Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht Durer and Hans Burgkmair.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Wonders and Monsters in Early Modern Europe
- Chapter 1a From Monstrous Races to Monstrous Births: Sebastian Brant and the Intersection of Humanism, Print Culture and Monstrous Births around 1500
- Chapter 2 Visual Culture and Monstrous Births before the Reformation: Albrecht DA1/4rer, Hans Burgkmair and Conjoined Twins
- Chapter 3 Reformation Visual Culture and Monstrous Births: Luther's Monk Calf and Melanchthon's Papal Ass
- Chapter 4 Wonder Books and Protestants: Jakob Rueff, Konrad Lycosthenes and Job Fincel
- Chapter 5 Catholic Print Culture and Monstrous Births: Johann Nas and Anti-Lutheran Polemic
- Chapter 6 'Many Heads, Mouths and Tongues': Monstrous Births in the Later Sixteenth Century
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