Abstract

Introduction: Wonders and Monsters in Early Modern Europe 1 From Monstrous Races to Monstrous Births: Sebastian Brant and the Intersection of Humanism, Print Culture and Monstrous Births around 1500 2 Visual Culture and Monstrous Births before the Reformation: Albrecht Durer, Hans Burgkmair and Conjoined Twins 3 Reformation Visual Culture and Monstrous Births: Luther's Monk Calf and Melanchthon's Papal Ass 4 Wonder Books and Protestants: Jakob Rueff, Konrad Lycosthenes and Job Fincel 5 Catholic Print Culture and Monstrous Births: Johann Nas and Anti-Lutheran Polemic 6 'Many Heads, Mouths and Tongues': Monstrous Births in the Later Sixteenth Century

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