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Oedipus and the Devil

Early modern people drew the boundaries between body and soul

differently. They had a lively sense of the interaction between supernatural

power and the natural world. What did masculinity and femininity mean in

a mental universe dominated by magic? What was the cultural impact of the

Reformation and Counter-Reformation on this magical world and its

images of gender? How were the boundaries between the rational and

irrational drawn, and how did this affect the psychic life of men and

women?

Oedipus and the Devil explores the psychological dimension of popular

culture in early modern Europe. Based on detailed historical case studies,

and using a combination of feminist theory and psychological analysis, the

book explores sexual attitudes, masculinity and femininity, magic, concepts

of excess, exorcism and witchcraft. Marking a shift away from the view

that gender is a product of cultural and linguistic practice, the author

argues that sexual difference has its own psychological and physiological

reality, which is part of the very stuff of culture and must influence the way

we write history.

This bold and imaginative book transforms our view of the relations

between men and women, and marks out a new route towards

understanding the body and its relationship to culture and subjectivity.

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).

Oedipus and the Devil

Witchcraft, sexuality and religion

in early modern Europe

Lyndal Roper

London and New York

First published 1994

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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Reprinted 1995, 1997

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 0-203-42629-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-73453-X (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-08894-1 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-10581-1 (pbk)

Contents

List of plates

Preface

Acknowledgements

viii

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

107

6 Stealing manhood: capitalism and magic in early

modern Germany

126

7 Drinking, whoring and gorging: brutish indiscipline and

the formation of Protestant identity

146

Part III

8 Exorcism and the theology of the body

171

9 Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany

200

10 Oedipus and the Devil

228

Index

252

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