1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787796703321

Autore

Cadden Joan <1944->

Titolo

Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe / / Joan Cadden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8122-0858-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages series

Disciplina

306.77

Soggetti

Male homosexuality - Europe - History - To 1500

Philosophy, Medieval - Europe - History - To 1500

Science, Medieval - Europe - History - To 1500

Sodomy - Europe - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910147257303321

Titolo

Capacity management review : CMR : a monthly report on managing computer performance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Phoenix, AZ, : Applied Computer Research, ©1990-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

004.5/05

Soggetti

Computer capacity - Planning

End-user computing

DATA PROCESSING

COMPUTERS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

EVALUATION

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from caption.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910133664803321

Titolo

Collected essays on learning and teaching

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Hamilton, Ontario] : , : Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), , 2008-

ISSN

2368-4526

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Teaching - Research

Learning - Research

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Some issues have also thematic titles.

Refereed/Peer-reviewed