LEADER 04419nam 22007811 450 001 9910825399303321 005 20211211001725.0 010 $a0-8122-0858-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208580 035 $a(CKB)2670000000426393 035 $a(OCoLC)861477987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10763685 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11635143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11084254 035 $a(PQKB)10625474 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27247 035 $a(DE-B1597)449749 035 $a(OCoLC)922638903 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208580 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442255 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10763685 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442255 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000426393 100 $a20130219d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNothing natural is shameful $esodomy and science in late medieval Europe /$fJoan Cadden 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51266-3 311 0 $a0-8122-4537-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Natural Philosophy of Sodomites and Their Kind --$tChapter 1. Moved by Nature --$tChapter 2. Habit Is a Kind of Nature --$tChapter 3. ?Just Like a Woman?: Passivity, Defect, and Insatiability --$tChapter 4. ?Beyond the Boundaries of Vice?: Moral Science and Natural Philosophy --$tChapter 5. What?s Wrong? Silence, Speech, and the Problema of Sodomy --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix. Pietro d?Abano, Expositio Problematum Aristotelis, IV.26: A Text --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tManuscripts Consulted --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals asked whether such dispositions might arise from anatomy or from the psychological processes of habit formation. As the fourteenth-century philosopher Walter Burley observed, "Nothing natural is shameful." The authors, scribes, and readers willing to "contemplate base things" never argued that they were not vile, but most did share the conviction that they could be explained. From the evidence that has survived in manuscripts of and related to the Problemata, two narratives emerge: a chronicle of the earnest attempts of medieval medical theorists and natural philosophers to understand the cause of homosexual desires and pleasures in terms of natural processes, and an ongoing debate as to whether the sciences were equipped or permitted to deal with such subjects at all. Mining hundreds of texts and deciphering commentaries, indices, abbreviations, and marginalia, Joan Cadden shows how European scholars deployed a standard set of philosophical tools and a variety of rhetorical strategies to produce scientific approaches to sodomy. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aMale homosexuality$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPhilosophy, Medieval$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aScience, Medieval$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSodomy$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $aGay Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLesbian Studies. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aQueer Studies. 615 0$aMale homosexuality$xHistory 615 0$aPhilosophy, Medieval$xHistory 615 0$aScience, Medieval$xHistory 615 0$aSodomy$xHistory 676 $a306.77 700 $aCadden$b Joan$f1944-$0540524 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825399303321 996 $aNothing natural is shameful$94112686 997 $aUNINA