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Auteur(s) : Cadden, Joan (1944-....)
Titre(s) : Nothing natural is shameful [Texte imprimé] : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / Joan Cadden
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : The Middle Ages series
Lien à la collection : The Middle Ages series
Comprend : Introduction : the natural philosophy of sodomites and their kind ; Moved by nature
; Habit is a kind of nature ; "Just like a woman" : passivity, defect, and insatiability
; "Beyond the boundaries of vice" : moral science and natural philosophy ; What's
wrong? : silence, speech, and the Problema of sodomy ; Epilogue ; Appendix. Pietro
d'Abano, Expositio problematum Aristotelis, IV.26 : a text ; Notes ; Manuscripts
consulted ; Works cited ; Index ; Acknowledgments.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 objects and events in nature. With this
philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals asked whether such dispositions
might arise from anatomy or from the psychological processes of habit formation. As
the fourteenth-century philosopher Walter Burley observed, "Nothing natural is shameful."
The authors, scribes, and readers willing to "contemplate base things" never argued
that they were not vile, but most did share the conviction that they could be explained.
From the evidence that has survived in manuscripts of and related to the Problemata,
two narratives emerge: a chronicle of the earnest attempts of medieval medical theorists
and natural philosophers to understand the cause of homosexual desires and pleasures
in terms of natural processes, and an ongoing debate as to whether the sciences were
equipped or permitted to deal with such subjects at all. Mining hundreds of texts
and deciphering commentaries, indices, abbreviations, and marginalia, Joan Cadden
shows how European scholars deployed a standard set of philosophical tools and a variety
of rhetorical strategies to produce scientific approaches to sodomy." -- Publisher
website
Sujet(s) : Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). Problèmes
Sodomie (relations sexuelles) -- Europe -- Moyen âge
Homosexualité masculine -- Europe -- Moyen âge
Sciences médiévales -- Europe
Philosophie médiévale -- Europe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812245370 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0812245377 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780812208580 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43771162m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43771162
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