Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination

Jana Byars is an independent scholar based in Amsterdam.Hans Peter Broedel is an Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota.

• Introduction Hans Peter Broedel and Jana Byars 1. Creating Monstrosity in Colonial Spanish America Robert C. Schwaller 2. The Mermaid of Edam Meets Medical Science: Empiricism and the Marvelous in Seventeenth-Century Zoological Thought Hans Peter Broedel 3. Bleeding Bodies and Bondage: Signifiers of Illegitimacy in Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi and Andrea della Robbia’s Tondi at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence Elizabeth A. Lisot-Nelson 4. "In questa guerra tutti ne è stà turchi": The Turk as Ultimate Enemy in Sixteenth-Century Italy Linda L. Carroll 5. Alpine Cannibals: French Renaissance Representations of the Alps and Their Residents Richard Keatley 6. Imagining the Amazon: Monstrous Discourses about Gynocracy in Elizabethan England Jessica Oxendine 7. Columbus’s Monsters: One-Eyed Men, Dog-Headed Men, Cannibals, and Amazons in the Accounts of the First Two Columbian Voyages Elena Daniele 8. Monsters and Men in the Wild New World: A Study of the Monstrous in Girolamo Benzoni’s Historia del Mondo Nuovo Jana Byars 9. "A True Narrative of the Grievous Affliction of Roger Sterrop in Somer Islands": Demonic Possession and the Puritan Project in Early Seventeenth-Century Bermuda Judith Bonzol 10. Montaigne’s Mercurial Masculinity Kathleen Long 11. Bigfoot Meets the Wild Man: Monstrous Borders Between Contemporary American and Early Modern European Culture Amanda Boyd