Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Constructing Maternal Knowledge; 1. Flesh and Stone: Dissecting Maternity in the Theatre of Anatomy; 2. The Cabinet of Wonders: Monstrous Conceptions in the Theatre of Nature; 3. Strange Labours: Maternity and Maleficium in the Theatre of Justice; 4. Speaking Stones: Memory and Maternity in the Theatre of Death; Postscript; Selected Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Chris Laoutaris is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London. He is currently working on a biography, The Queen's Soldier: The Life and Works of Elizabeth Russell (1528-1609).