The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe

Folger bibliographic ID: 208569
Folger call number: HQ76.2.E9 S35 2008
Folger holdings ID: 243636
Accession Number: 264612

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : the prehistory of homosexuality in the early modern sciences / Kenneth Borris -- Disorder of body, mind, or soul : male sexual deviance in Jacques Despars's commentary on Avicenna / Derek Neal -- Giulio 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 Renaissance 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 Girolamo Cardano's theoretical treatises and celebrity genitures / H. Darrel Rutkin -- "Bolognan boys are beautiful, tasteful, and mostly fine musicians" : 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 versus sexualities : current science and reading early modern female same-sex relations / Harriette Andreadis

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

Homosexuality Gays Homosexuality in literature

associated with: Borris, Kenneth
associated with: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian)