Kenneth Borris is Professor of English at McGill University and is a recipient of the MacCaffrey Award and a Canada Research Fellowship. His previous books are Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 2004), Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (2001), Spenser’s Poetics of Prophecy (1991), and a co-edited collection, The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (2001).George Rousseau is Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University. His previous publications include Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004), Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003) Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: medical, scientific, anthropological (Manchester, 1991) and, with Roy Porter, Gout: The Patrician Malady (1998).

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• 1. Introduction: The Prehistory of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Sciences Kenneth Borris Part 1: Medicine 2. Disorder of Body, Mind or Soul: Male Sexual Deviance in Jacques Despars’s 'Commentary on Avicenna' Derek Neal 3. Giulio Guastavini’s Commentary on Pseudo-Aristotle’s Account of Male Same-Sexual Coitus, 'Problemata 4.26' Faith Wallis 4. Policing the Anus: Stuprum and Sodomy According to Paolo Zacchia’s 'Forensic Medicine' George Rousseau 5. Syphilis and the Silencing of Sodomy in Juan Calvo’s 'Tratado del Morbo Gálico' Cristian Berco 6. The Strange Medical Silence on Same-Sex Transmission of the Pox, c.1660–c.1760 Kevin Siena Part 2: Divinatory, Speculative and other Sciences 7. Sodomizing Science: Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the Constitutional Morphologies of Renaissance Male Same-Sex Lovers Kenneth Borris 8. Representations of Same-Sex Love in Early Modern Astrology P.G. Maxwell-Stuart 9. Astrological Conditioning of Same-Sexual Relations in Girolamo Cardano’s Theoretical Treatises and Celebrity Genitures H. Darrel Rutkin 10. 'Bolognan Boys are Beautiful, Tasteful, and Mostly Fine Musicians': Cardano on Male Same-Sex Love and Music Guido Giglioni 11. Mercury Falling: Gender Flexibility and Eroticism in Popular Alchemy Allison B. Kavey Part 3: Science and Sapphisms 12. Intrigues of Hermaphrodites and the Intercourse of Science with Erotica Winfried Schleiner 13. Erotics versus Sexualities: Current Science and Reading Early Modern Female Same-Sex Relations Harriette Andreadis

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English at McGill University and is a recipient of the MacCaffrey Award and a Canada Research Fellowship. His previous books are Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 2004), Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (2001), Spenser’s Poetics of Prophecy (1991), and a co-edited collection, The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (2001).George Rousseau is Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University. His previous publications include Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004), Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003) Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: medical, scientific, anthropological (Manchester, 1991) and, with Roy Porter, Gout: The Patrician Malady (1998).

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• 1. Introduction: The Prehistory of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Sciences Kenneth Borris Part 1: Medicine 2. Disorder of Body, Mind or Soul: Male Sexual Deviance in Jacques Despars’s 'Commentary on Avicenna' Derek Neal 3. Giulio Guastavini’s Commentary on Pseudo-Aristotle’s Account of Male Same-Sexual Coitus, 'Problemata 4.26' Faith Wallis 4. Policing the Anus: Stuprum and Sodomy According to Paolo Zacchia’s 'Forensic Medicine' George Rousseau 5. Syphilis and the Silencing of Sodomy in Juan Calvo’s 'Tratado del Morbo Gálico' Cristian Berco 6. The Strange Medical Silence on Same-Sex Transmission of the Pox, c.1660–c.1760 Kevin Siena Part 2: Divinatory, Speculative and other Sciences 7. Sodomizing Science: Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the Constitutional Morphologies of Renaissance Male Same-Sex Lovers Kenneth Borris 8. Representations of Same-Sex Love in Early Modern Astrology P.G. Maxwell-Stuart 9. Astrological Conditioning of Same-Sexual Relations in Girolamo Cardano’s Theoretical Treatises and Celebrity Genitures H. Darrel Rutkin 10. 'Bolognan Boys are Beautiful, Tasteful, and Mostly Fine Musicians': Cardano on Male Same-Sex Love and Music Guido Giglioni 11. Mercury Falling: Gender Flexibility and Eroticism in Popular Alchemy Allison B. Kavey Part 3: Science and Sapphisms 12. Intrigues of Hermaphrodites and the Intercourse of Science with Erotica Winfried Schleiner 13. Erotics versus Sexualities: Current Science and Reading Early Modern Female Same-Sex Relations Harriette Andreadis

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English at McGill University and is a recipient of the MacCaffrey Award and a Canada Research Fellowship. His previous books are Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 2004), Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (2001), Spenser’s Poetics of Prophecy (1991), and a co-edited collection, The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (2001).George Rousseau is Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University. His previous publications include Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004), Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003) Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: medical, scientific, anthropological (Manchester, 1991) and, with Roy Porter, Gout: The Patrician Malady (1998).

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• 1. Introduction: The Prehistory of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Sciences Kenneth Borris Part 1: Medicine 2. Disorder of Body, Mind or Soul: Male Sexual Deviance in Jacques Despars’s 'Commentary on Avicenna' Derek Neal 3. Giulio Guastavini’s Commentary on Pseudo-Aristotle’s Account of Male Same-Sexual Coitus, 'Problemata 4.26' Faith Wallis 4. Policing the Anus: Stuprum and Sodomy According to Paolo Zacchia’s 'Forensic Medicine' George Rousseau 5. Syphilis and the Silencing of Sodomy in Juan Calvo’s 'Tratado del Morbo Gálico' Cristian Berco 6. The Strange Medical Silence on Same-Sex Transmission of the Pox, c.1660–c.1760 Kevin Siena Part 2: Divinatory, Speculative and other Sciences 7. Sodomizing Science: Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the Constitutional Morphologies of Renaissance Male Same-Sex Lovers Kenneth Borris 8. Representations of Same-Sex Love in Early Modern Astrology P.G. Maxwell-Stuart 9. Astrological Conditioning of Same-Sexual Relations in Girolamo Cardano’s Theoretical Treatises and Celebrity Genitures H. Darrel Rutkin 10. 'Bolognan Boys are Beautiful, Tasteful, and Mostly Fine Musicians': Cardano on Male Same-Sex Love and Music Guido Giglioni 11. Mercury Falling: Gender Flexibility and Eroticism in Popular Alchemy Allison B. Kavey Part 3: Science and Sapphisms 12. Intrigues of Hermaphrodites and the Intercourse of Science with Erotica Winfried Schleiner 13. Erotics versus Sexualities: Current Science and Reading Early Modern Female Same-Sex Relations Harriette Andreadis