Joan Cadden

Nothing Natural Is Shameful

Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In medieval Europe, where theologians saw sin, some natural philosophers saw a phenomenon in need of explanation. They believed some men were born with homosexual inclinations and others acquired them as habits based on early pleasurable experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245370
• ISBN-10: 0812245377
• Artikelnr.: 38129517

Autorenporträt

Joan Cadden is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Davis, and author of Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Epilogue
Appendix. Pietro d'Abano, Expositio Problematum Aristotelis, IV.26: A Text
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Manuscripts Consulted
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments