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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Cançoners, Translat, Eiximenis, Arnau, Llull, Altres

Jacquart, Danielle - Thomasset, Claude, Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge, París, Presses universitaires de France, 1985, 271 pp.

Resum
¿Fue la Edad Media un período licencioso, desenfrenado, o, por el contrario, de severa represión? Los autores, tras un pormenorizado análisis, revelan el concepto de sexualidad creado por doctores, teólogos y la literatura erótica. Con la ayuda de una peculiar representación fisiológica del ser humano, médicos y teólogos intentan rendir cuentas del comportamiento humano. La mujer, ser misterioso e insaciable, aparece como agente transmisor de enfermedades tan temibles como la lepra. Además la dificultad para denominar los órganos coexiste con los peligros que implican las traducciones sucesivas: del griego al árabe, del árabe al latín, de éste al francés antiguo.

This book considers the medical and literary texts of the Middle Ages. It shows how many of the medical and moral questions which preoccupy us in the 20th century appear, surprisingly, to have worried our medieval ancestors as well. Through a detailed analysis of both expert and lay writings, Jacquart and Thomasset examine the conceptions of sexuality which were created by doctors, by theologians and by romantic and erotic literature. In the first section of the book they discuss how ideas of physiology, venereal disease and purity were described, and the influence of these anatomical tracts on popular perceptions of the body. The second part charts a history of erotic art and, through this, the differing conceptions of Eastern and Western sexuality. Finally, the authors present a history of the body, analyzing problems of impotence and hysteria and how female sexuality in itself came to be perceived as corrupt and diseased.
Matèries
Història de la medicina
Història de la cultura
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Traduccions
Dones
Sexualitat
Notes
Recensions:
* Green (1991), "Sex and the medieval physician"
Trad. angl.: Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1988 / Princeton University Press, 1988.
Trad. esp.: Sexualidad y saber médico en la Edad Media, Barcelona, Labor, 1989.
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).