ISBN:
9780415105811
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (267 p.)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Gaskill, Malcolm Oedipus and the devil. Witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe. By Lyndal Roper. Pp. x + 254 inch 11 plates. London–New York: Routledge, 1994. £40 (cloth), £13.99 (paper). 0 415 08894 1; 0 415 10581 1 1995
Parallel Title:
Print version Oedipus and the Devil : Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion 1500-1700
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Was there a crisis in gender relations in sixteenth-century Germany?; Will and honour: sex, words and power in Augsburg criminal trials; Sexual utopianism in the German Reformation; Blood and codpieces: masculinity in the early modern German town; Stealing manhood: capitalism and magic in early modern Germany; Drinking, whoring and gorging: brutish indiscipline and the formation of Protestant identity; Exorcism and the theology of the body; Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany
Description / Table of Contents:
Oedipus and the DevilIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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