Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Introduction 11
5. 1. The Moresca Dance in Counter- Reformation Rome: Court Medicine and the Moderation of Exceptional Bodies 37
6. 2. Monsters and the Maternal Imagination : The ‘First Vision’ from Johann Remmelin’s 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych 59
7. 3. The Optics of Bodily Deviance : Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Path to Public Office 85
8. 4. ‘The Most Deformed Woman in France’ : Marguerite de Valois’s Monstrous Sexuality in the Divorce satyrique 103
9. 5. Curious, Useful and Important: Bayle’s ‘Hermaphrodites’ as Figures of Theological Inquiry 123
10. 6. An Education: Johannes Schefferus and the Prodigious Son of a Fisherman 141
11. 7. Ambiguous and Transitional Bodies: Stillbirth in Stockholm, 1691-1724 163
12. Afterword 185
13. Index 193