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ItemNo Preview AvailableWondrous monsters: Representing conjoined twins in early sixteenth-century German broadsheetsSpinks, J (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2005-01-01)In sixteenth-century Europe widely circulated broadsheets regularly reported the birth of physically monstrous children and animals, often regarded as signs of God's wrath and important heralds of misfortune. A negative understanding of these births has consequently dominated studies of the phenomenon. Yet a number of pre-Reformation publications represent such births, both textually and visually, in positive terms. Three cases of conjoined twins born in the German towns Worms, Ertingen, and Tettnang around 1500 demonstrate how children perceived as monstrous could nonetheless be viewed in a sympathetic light, interpreted as positive political omens, and even represented in the guise of the infant Christ.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCodpieces and Potbellies in the Songes drolatiques: Satirizing Masculine Self-Control in Early Modern France and GermanySpinks, J ; Broomhall, S ; VanGent, J (ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD, 2011)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster - IntroductionZika, CF ; Spinks, JS ; Leahy, C ; Spinks, J ; Zika, C (Museum Victoria, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMonsters and Heavenly Signs: Looking for the Last DaysSPINKS, J ; Spinks, J ; Zika, C (National Gallery of Australia, 2012)With works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Jacques de Gheyn II and Stefano della Bella, The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster provides a fascinating insight into the art, culture and turbulent times in later medieval, ...
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ItemNo Preview AvailableReview: Grand Scale: Monumental prints in the age of Dürer and TitianSPINKS, J (Rowman &, 2011)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSegni, mirabilia e mostri: Joseph Grünpeck interprete di un mondo alla deriva del sensoSPINKS, J ; Ernst, G ; Giglioni, G (Carocci, 2012)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEntry: On Human Generation and Conception (1587): Jakob RueffSPINKS, J ; Sappol, M (National Library of Medicine, 2012)A celebration of the 175 anniversary of the National Library of Medicine includes 80 objects from the museum, each coupled with an essay, in a showcase that features medical books, rare manuscripts, "magic lantern"; slides, toys, stereograph ...
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ItemRepresenting Female Labour at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age: Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg's Old and New Trades (c. 1594 - c. 1612)Spinks, JS ; Broomhall, (Taylor and Francis, 2010)
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ItemMonstrous Births and Counter-Reformation Visual Polemics: Johann Nas and the 1569 Ecclesia MilitansSPINKS, J (Truman State University Press, 2009)
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ItemMonstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century GermanySPINKS, J (Pickering & Chatto, 2009)