This text argues that sexual difference has its own psychological and physiological reality, which must affect the way we write history. These essays deal with the nature of masculinity and femininity, the importance of the irrational and unconscious in history, the cultural impact of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the central role of magic and witchcraft in the psychic and emotional world of the early modern period. It aims to define a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity.
By:
Lyndal Roper
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780415105811
ISBN 10: 0415105811
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 12 May 1994
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
