ISBN:
0203426290
,
9780203426296
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 254 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
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Mentzer, Raymond A. [Rezension von: Roper, Lyndal, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe] 1996
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Roper, Lyndal Oedipus and the Devil
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Popular culture History
;
Witchcraft History
;
Sex role History
;
Popular culture
;
Sex role
;
Witchcraft
;
Sexo e sexualidade (sociologia)
;
Historia moderna
;
Cultura
;
Religiao
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
History
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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