A tidbit on Monsters
Mar. 29th, 2012 02:24 pmThanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spiralsheep for linking me to the thesis (in the form of a Google-cached HTML of a .PDF file) in which I found this tidbit:
(quote)
According to Isidore of Seville [aside: Seventh Century], one of the earliest authors writing about monsters, monstrosity takes the following forms and can be classified accordingly:
(1) hypertrophy of the body, (2) atrophy of the body, (3) excrescence of bodily parts, (4) superfluity of bodily parts, (5) deprivation of parts, (6) mixture of human and animal parts, (7) animal births by human women, (8) mislocation of organs or parts in the body, (9) disturbed growth (being born old), (10) composite beings, (11) hermaphrodites, (12) monstrous races
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So. That's interesting. Based on that list, I wasn't far off the mark, after all, when the thought clicked into being that the medical establishment treats disabled people like monsters, was I?
ETA: a link to the whole thesis (monstrously long url): When a Knight meets a Dragon Maiden: Human Identity and the Monstrous Animal Other
(And now, I've got "When a body meets a body coming through the rye" running around in my head...)
spiralsheep for linking me to the thesis (in the form of a Google-cached HTML of a .PDF file) in which I found this tidbit:(quote)
According to Isidore of Seville [aside: Seventh Century], one of the earliest authors writing about monsters, monstrosity takes the following forms and can be classified accordingly:
(1) hypertrophy of the body, (2) atrophy of the body, (3) excrescence of bodily parts, (4) superfluity of bodily parts, (5) deprivation of parts, (6) mixture of human and animal parts, (7) animal births by human women, (8) mislocation of organs or parts in the body, (9) disturbed growth (being born old), (10) composite beings, (11) hermaphrodites, (12) monstrous races
(unquote)
So. That's interesting. Based on that list, I wasn't far off the mark, after all, when the thought clicked into being that the medical establishment treats disabled people like monsters, was I?
ETA: a link to the whole thesis (monstrously long url): When a Knight meets a Dragon Maiden: Human Identity and the Monstrous Animal Other
(And now, I've got "When a body meets a body coming through the rye" running around in my head...)
