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.
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 DĆ¼rer, 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;
Spinks, Jennifer
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