Thomas Hubbard, Sexuelle Zwischenstufen (Abstract)
“Sexuelle Zwischenstufen” in Early Greek Medicine and Philosophy Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas Scholars such as Marie Delcourt and Luc Brisson have explored the paradox that Greek myth and...
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Semantics of ḏakar, unṯā, ḫunṯā and ḫaṣiy in Arabic Ashraf F. Hassan, Università di Napoli L’Orientale & Univesität Bayreuth This paper intends to investigate the philological approach to the term...
View ArticleRalph Leck, Zwischenstufen (Abstract)
Zwischenstufen: Epistemic Revolution in Science and Culture Ralph Leck, Indiana State University My lecture will build upon my forthcoming book, Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Rise of Sexual...
View ArticleIn a nutshell: Hermaphrodites in the Middle Ages
Every now and then I contemplate the idea to do this blog in English. My native language is German, but English was my first academic language, and I started to give academic papers and to publish...
View ArticleThe Zurich hermaphrodite (English translation)
The Zurich hermaphrodite In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Siamese twins, hermaphrodites, and other unusual births attracted much attention, and were depicted and discussed in various media,...
View ArticleAntonio de Torquemada (English translation)
This is an English translation of a passage from Torquemada’s Jardin de flores curiosas, first published in 1570. For the content, and also the Spanish original, see here; for a German translation from...
View ArticleA sodomite claiming to be hermaphrodite (Lille, 1458)
A sodomite burnt at the stake (Lille, 1458) Sodomy, mainly understood as referring to sexual acts between men, and above all anal intercourse, was punishable at the stake in most medieval societies. In...
View ArticleRoman law and its digital life | Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog
Otto Vervaat, whose legal history blog I read with great pleasure, has just published a very useful survey of digital ressources for the study of Roman law, mainly (bit not exclusively) classical Roman...
View ArticlePlinius d. Ä. über Hermaphroditen und Geschlechtswechsel (nat....
In seinem enzyklopädischen naturkundlichem Werk Historia naturalis berichtet Plinius († 79) mehrfach von Menschen, die mit doppelten Genitalien geboren wurden und/oder die ihr körperliches Geschlecht...
View ArticleAristotele, De generatione (Englisch)
I’ve just posted a German translation of some excerpts of Aristotle’s theory of generation, and as I slowly want to build up a collection of English primary source material, here comes the English...
View ArticleAlbucasis (d. 1031) on sex-changing surgery
Narrative sources relating sex-changing surgery are rare for pre-modern history, and so the reports by Diodor in his Bibliotheke for the fourth century BC and that of the Colmar Annals for ca. AD 1300...
View ArticleAristotele, goats, and double sex (English)
Double-sexed goats may not be the most common topics in scholarly blogs, not even in this blog; but if Aristotle had blogged more on anatomy than he in fact did, things may have taken a different...
View ArticleDiodor and Ovid on Hermaphroditus (English)
For centuries, indeed for milennia, any discourse on bodies ‘between’ the sexes drew on the vocabulary of ‘hermaphroditism’ ultimately referring to the god Hermaphroditos. While there is evidence for a...
View ArticleHeterosexual hermaphrodites: Aneau’s Picta poesis
If Pliny provided naturalists, philosophers and ethnographic writers with a prose account of ‘hermaphrodites’, Ovid was the perennial source of the lyrical variation of the theme. Given the popularity...
View ArticleGeorge Sandys, Ovid’s Metamorphosis (1632)
Ovid’s account of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis in his Metamorphoses remained the most important account for learned discourse on hermaphrodites well into modern times. Given that there is an abundance...
View ArticleThe mukhannath in pre-modern Islamic Law
Serena Tolino, Zurich University This blogpost is one of two going back to the paper at the Zwischen conference in September 2015. See here for an abstract, and here for the other blogpost. In...
View ArticleEunuchs in pre-modern Islamic Law
Eunuchs in pre-modern Islamic Law Serena Tolino, Zurich University This blogpost is one of two going back to the paper at the Zwischen conference in September 2015. See here for an absctract, and here...
View ArticleZwischenstufen. Epistemic Revolution in Science and Culture
Zwischenstufen. Epistemic Revolution in Science and Culture. From Ulrichs to Hirschfeld Dr. Ralph Leck, Indiana State University [These are the slides of the Powerpoint presentation of Dr Leck’s...
View ArticleWelcome the “Wellcome Apocalypse”
The end (of the year) is near – time for an apocalyptic blogpost: Welcome the Wellcome Apocalypse! This medieval miscellany has been digitized by the Wellcome Library, and is available online in...
View Article“Sexuelle Zwischenstufen” in Early Greek Medicine and Philosophy
“Sexuelle Zwischenstufen” in Early Greek Medicine and Philosophy Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas The classical scholars Marie Delcourt and Luc Brisson have devoted book-length treatments to the...
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