London: Routledge, 1994. — x+254 p.
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.
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
Oedipus and the Devil