Nothing Natural Is Shameful
Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
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 cont…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0858-0
- EAN: 9780812208580
- Produktnummer: 16940065
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'533 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 illus.
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