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The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe / edited by Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau

Borris, Kenneth [Hrsg.] ; Rousseau, G. S.,i1941- [Hrsg.]

New York, NY : Routledge, 2007

XI, 281 S.

Introduction : the prehistory of homosexuality in the early modern sciences / Kenneth Borris -- Disorder of body, mind, or soul? Male sexual deviance in Jacques Despars : commentary on Avicenna / Derek Neal -- Guastavini's commentary on pseudo-Aristotle's account of male same-sexual coitus, problemata 4.26 / Faith Wallis -- Policing the anus: stuprum and sodomy according to Paolo Zacchia's forensic medicine / George Rousseau -- Syphilis and the silencing of sodomy in Juan Calvo's Tratatado del morbo gálico / Cristian Berco -- The strange medical silence on same-sex transmission of the pox, c. 1660-c. 1760 / Kevin Siena -- Sodomizing science : Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the constitutional morphologies of male same-sex lovers / Kenneth Borris -- Representations of same-sex love in early modern astrology / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart -- Astrological conditioning of same-sexual relations in Cardano's theoretical treatises and celebrity genitures / H. Darrel Rutkin -- Bononienses pueri formosi sunt, elegantes et plerique optimi musici : Cardano on male same-sex love and music / Guido Giglioni -- Mercury falling : gender flexibility and eroticism in popular alchemy / Allison B. Kavey -- Intrigues of hermaphrodites and the intercourse of science with erotica / Winfried Schleiner -- Erotics vs. sexualities : current science and reading early modern female same-sex relations / Harriette Andreadis

Includes index

978-0-415-40321-4 ; 978-0-415-44692-1

HD 300

 

Homosexualität  Europa  Geschichte 1500-1750