The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe
By: edited by Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau.
Contributors: Borris, Kenneth.; Rousseau, G. S.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415403214; 9780415446921
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Europe -- History; Gays -- Identity; Gays -- Europe -- History; Homosexuality in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the prehistory of homosexuality in the early modern sciences / Kenneth Borris; title: Disorder of body, mind, or soul? Male sexual deviance in Jacques Despars : commentary on Avicenna / Derek Neal; title: Guastavini's commentary on pseudo-Aristotle's account of male same-sexual coitus, problemata 4.26 / Faith Wallis; title: Policing the anus: stuprum and sodomy according to Paolo Zacchia's forensic medicine / George Rousseau; title: Syphilis and the silencing of sodomy in Juan Calvo's Tratatado del morbo gálico / Cristian Berco; title: The strange medical silence on same-sex transmission of the pox, c. 1660-c. 1760 / Kevin Siena; title: Sodomizing science : Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the constitutional morphologies of male same-sex lovers / Kenneth Borris; title: Representations of same-sex love in early modern astrology / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart; title: Astrological conditioning of same-sexual relations in Cardano's theoretical treatises and celebrity genitures / H. Darrel Rutkin; title: Bononienses pueri formosi sunt, elegantes et plerique optimi musici : Cardano on male same-sex love and music / Guido Giglioni; title: Mercury falling : gender flexibility and eroticism in popular alchemy / Allison B. Kavey; title: Intrigues of hermaphrodites and the intercourse of science with erotica / Winfried Schleiner; title: Erotics vs. sexualities : current science and reading early modern female same-sex relations / Harriette Andreadis.