Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / Joan Cadden.
Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / Joan Cadden.
Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / Joan Cadden.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
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G 2014/3657
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English
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327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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 Proble...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
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1st ed.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2013.
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"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...
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Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / Joan Cadden.
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The Middle Ages series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2013.
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G 2014/3657
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74VKv07LPbrO
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0812245377 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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306.77
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991021670509702626
