I also wish to thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for their generous financial support for the publication of this book. I wish to thank the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft for several travel grants that allowed me to present some of the material of this book at several international conferences and symposia. Chapters two and three were made possible by a generous research grant, the Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship, from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), as well as by a Frances Yates Fellowship at the Warburg Institute in London, held between 1997 and It goes without saying that the quality of the present study has immensely benefited not only from the rich resources of the formidable Warburg library, but also from the manifold encounters with other scholars there. Chapters one to three and six to eight, as well as the Epilogue have been previously published, albeit in different forms. 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 251 Epilogue: Deconstructing the Renaissance Magus 275 Bibliography 295 Index 315ħ Acknowledgements This book is the revised version of my Habilitationsschrift which was accepted by the University of Vienna in The texts presented here developed over the past decade out of a series of talks and related articles, all focussing on the notion of bodies and matter in Italian Renaissance Philosophy. ![]() 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. ![]() Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 23 B775.K a 190.9'031 C Typesetting, cover design, and production: Iter Inc.ĥ Contents Acknowledgements 7 Illustrations 8 Introduction: Disreputable Bodies 9 1. Series: Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). (Essays and studies 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Kodera, Sergius, 1963 Disreputable bodies : magic, medicine and gender in Renaissance natural philosophy / Sergius Kodera. Universitätsbibliothek, Wien, by permission. ![]() Naples: Apud Torquinium Longum, 1602 (colophon: 1601), p. Cover illustration: Giambattista Della Porta, De humana physiognomia. 1 Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Essays and Studies, 23 Series Editor Konrad Eisenbichler Victoria University in the University of Torontoģ Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy Sergius Kodera Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2010Ĥ CRRS Publications Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria University in the University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7, Canada Tel: 416/ Fax: 416/ Web: by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies All Rights Reserved Printed in Canada National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication This volume was published with financial support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
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