Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space and narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability examines representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Central to the book is the concept of monstrosity, a precursor to disability, and one that has had last implications on the way we make meaning out of disability in a variety of ways. Monstrous Kinds compares a wide body of texts including conduct books, treatises, travel writing, and wonder books to complicate the categories we have traditionally used to understand disability.