Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany - Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

Spinks, Jennifer

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781851966301
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	01 Jun 2009
DEWEY:	760.04496160430943
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	207
Weight:	478g
Height:	161mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	21mm