Oedipus and the Devil

Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-10581-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roper, Lyndal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of plates, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Part I, 2. Was there a crisis in gender relations in sixteenth century Germany?, 3. Will and honour: sex, words and power in Augsburg criminal trials, 4. Sexual utopianism in the German Reformation, Part II, 5. Blood and codpieces: masculinity in the early modern German town, 6. Stealing manhood: capitalism and magic in early modern Germany, 7. Drinking, whoring and gorging: brutish indiscipline and the formation of Protestant identity, Part III, 8. Exorcism and the theology of the body, 9. Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany, 10. Oedipus and the Devil, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lyndal Roper is Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her last book was The Holy Household: Women and morals in Reformation Augsburg (1989). She was co-editor, with Jim Obelkevich and Raphael Samuel, of Disciplines of Faith, Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy (1987).