Emblematic Monsters
Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77) (Clio Medica)
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Word Count
85,000 words, Guess
Page Count
340 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9099803M
- ISBN-139789042018624
- ISBN-109042018623
- OCLC Control Number62777500
- OCLC Control Numberemblematicmonste0000bate
and 2 more
- Goodreads1937594
- LibraryThing1400183
Classifications
- LCCQM691 .E53 2009
Description
"In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies." "Most impressively, A.W. Bates draws upon his own experience of diagnosis of birth defects to summarise more than two hundred original descriptions of monstrous births and compare them with modern diagnostic categories."--Jacket.
First Sentence
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been seen as a 'golden age' of monsters,2 a period of unprecedented interest during which popular ballads and pamphlets carried news of monstrous births, and books on monsters, written by prominent physicians and natural philosophers, were widely read and went through many editions.
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