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Nothing Natural Is Shameful : Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe /
In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objec...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Natural Philosophy of Sodomites and Their Kind; Chapter 1. Moved by Nature; Chapter 2. Habit Is a Kind of Nature; Chapter 3. "Just Like a Woman": Passivity, Defect, and Insatiability; Chapter 4. "Beyond the Boundaries of Vice": Moral Science and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 5. What's Wrong? Silence, Speech, and the Problema of Sodomy; Eepilogue; Appendix. Pietro d'Abano, Expositio Problematum Aristotelis, IV.26: A Text; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Manuscripts Consulted; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R.
- ST; U; V; W; Acknowledgments.