Chapter ID: CBB486020083

Sex and Sensibilities in the Medieval Problemata Tradition: Pietro d’Abano and His Readers (2016)

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When, in the course of his exposition of theProblemata Physica, Pietro d’Abano arrived at the thirty two questions on sexual subjects that constitute Book IV, he did not hesitate to expound them, as he had the previous sets of questions on medicine, sweats, and drunkenness. It was a characteristic of this Aristotelian text to inquire into the natural causes of all manner of phenomena, including many relating to human bodies and behaviors; and it was Pietro’s intellectual style to embrace such a project. But sex was not a culturally neutral subject. In the previous century, church doctrine had been

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Authors & Contributors
Piaia, Gregorio
Klemm, Matthew
Jacquart, Danielle
Coucke, Gijs
Alessandro Tessari
Lauriello, Giuseppe
Concepts
Medicine
Philosophy
Aristotelianism
Sex
Sexuality
Natural philosophy
Time Periods
Medieval
14th century
13th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Italy
Europe
France
Institutions
Bologna. Università
Université de Montpellier
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