Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy
By Sergius KoderaEssays and Studies 23
Konrad Eisenbichler, Series Editor
Published by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Victoria University in the University of Torontno
2010
Contents
- Full Volume
- Front Cover
- Preliminaries
- Nymphomaniac Matter: The Prostitute as Metaphor for the Body in Italian Renaissance Philosophy
- Matter as a Mirror: Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Neoplatonism
- Lady Vampires: Marsilio Ficino on Blood
- Disease, Infection, Cognition: Air as a Universal and Daemonic Mediator in Renaissance Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism
- Three Elements Instead of Four?
- Masculine/Feminine. The Concept of Matter in Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore or the Difficult Question: Who's on Top?
- Renaissance Readings of Aristophanes' Myth from Plato's Symposium (189C–193D)
- Meretricious Arts: The Astrological Significance of Surgical Interventions into the Body in Giambattista Della Porta
- Epilogue: Deconstructing the Renaissance Magus
- Bibliography
- Index
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