Jennifer Spinks

Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663275
• ISBN-10: 1138663271
• Artikelnr.: 45329976

Autorenporträt

Spinks, Jennifer

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dÿrer, 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;