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Marking a shift away from the view that gender is a product of cultural and linguistic practise, Oedipus and the Devil argues that the body has been oddly absent from these debates, that sexual difference has its own psychological and physiological reality, which is part of the very stuff of culture, and 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. This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. eBook available with sample pages: 0203426290
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
What is a dream? Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought. Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists. This collection celebrates and evaluates Freud's landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it in historical context. A modern view of psychoanalysis, it also discusses the controversial idea of the role of the external world on the shaping of unconscious mental contents. In highly accessible language it proceeds through a series of richly illustrated case studies, providing new source materials and debates about the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, past and present: from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek dream sources to peasant interpretation of dream-life in communist Russia; from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France. Dreams and History will fascinate those interested not only in psychoanalysis and history, but also arts, culture, humanities and literature.
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What is a dream? Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought. Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists. This collection celebrates and evaluates Freud's landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it in historical context. A modern view of psychoanalysis, it also discusses the controversial idea of the role of the external world on the shaping of unconscious mental contents. In highly accessible language it proceeds through a series of richly illustrated case studies, providing new source materials and debates about the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, past and present: from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek dream sources to peasant interpretation of dream-life in communist Russia; from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France. Dreams and History will fascinate those interested not only in psychoanalysis and history, but also arts, culture, humanities and literature.
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade
and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his
larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure
during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and
enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark
on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther
carefully crafted his own image and how he has been portrayed in
his own times and ours, painting a unique portrait of the man who
set in motion a revolution that sundered Western Christendom.
Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal Roper examines how the painter
Lucas Cranach produced images that made the reformer an instantly
recognizable character whose biography became part of Lutheran
devotional culture. She reveals what Luther's dreams have to say
about his relationships and discusses how his masculinity was on
the line in his devastatingly crude and often funny polemical
attacks. Roper shows how Luther's hostility to the papacy was
unshaken to the day he died, how his deep-rooted anti-Semitism
infused his theology, and how his memorialization has given rise to
a remarkable flood of kitsch, from "Here I Stand" socks to
Playmobil Luther. Lavishly illustrated, Living I Was Your Plague is
a splendid work of cultural history that sheds new light on the
complex and enduring legacy of Luther and his image.
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade
and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his
larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure
during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and
enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark
on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther
carefully crafted his own image and how he has been portrayed in
his own times and ours, painting a unique portrait of the man who
set in motion a revolution that sundered Western Christendom.
Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal Roper examines how the painter
Lucas Cranach produced images that made the reformer an instantly
recognizable character whose biography became part of Lutheran
devotional culture. She reveals what Luther's dreams have to say
about his relationships and discusses how his masculinity was on
the line in his devastatingly crude and often funny polemical
attacks. Roper shows how Luther's hostility to the papacy was
unshaken to the day he died, how his deep-rooted anti-Semitism
infused his theology, and how his memorialization has given rise to
a remarkable flood of kitsch, from "Here I Stand" socks to
Playmobil Luther. Lavishly illustrated, Living I Was Your Plague is
a splendid work of cultural history that sheds new light on the
complex and enduring legacy of Luther and his image.
A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make
them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at
the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the
Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with
the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and
crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the
pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this
period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial
transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern
Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper
paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations.
She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why
it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes,
why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in
art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly
women in our own culture.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE
ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017 'A magnificent study of one of
history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. Evans
When Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a
small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed
the Western world for ever. Within a few years Luther's ideas had
spread like wildfire. His attempts to reform Christianity by
returning it to its biblical roots split the Western Church,
divided Europe and polarised people's beliefs, leading to religious
persecution, social unrest and war; and in the long run his ideas
would help break the grip of religion on every sphere of life. Yet
Luther was a deeply flawed human being: a fervent believer
tormented by spiritual doubts; a prolific writer whose translation
of the Bible would shape the German language yet whose attacks on
his opponents were vicious and foul-mouthed; a married ex-monk who
liberated human sexuality from the stigma of sin but who insisted
that women should know their place; a religious fundamentalist,
Jew-hater and political reactionary who called 'for the private and
public murder of the peasants' who had risen against their lords in
response to his teaching. And perhaps surprisingly, the man who
helped create in the modern world was not modern himself: for him
the devil was not a figure of speech but a real, physical presence.
As an acclaimed historian, Lyndal Roper explains how Luther's
impact can only be understood against the background of the times.
As a brilliant biographer, she gives us the flesh-and-blood figure.
She reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove
Luther forward and the dynamics they unleashed, which turned a
small act of protest into a battle against the power of the Church.
A New Statesman, Spectator, History Today, Guardian and Sunday
Times Book of the Year
This is a fascinating study of the impact of the Reformation idea
of "civic righteousness" on the position of women in Augsburg.
Roper argues that its development, both as a religious credo and as
a social movement, must be understood in terms of gender. Until now
the effects of the Reformation on women have been viewed as largely
beneficial--Protestantism being linked with the forces of
progressivism, individualism, and modernization. Roper here argues
that such a view of the Reformation's legacy is a profound
misreading, and that the status of women was, in fact, worsened by
the Reformation. A number of themes are explored: the economic
position of women in the household economy; the nature of "civic
righteousness" and how it applied a "reform moralism" to the role
of marriage and the household; the efforts of civic authority to
reform sexual deviance; the attempts to control marriage and the
breakdown of marriage; and the role of convents and nuns. The Holy
Household is the first scholarly account of how the Reformation
affected half of society. It combines sound application of feminist
theory with careful, open-ended archival research to advance our
understanding of the Reformation, of feminist history, and of the
place of women in modern European society.
The late Bob Scribner was one of the most original and provocative
historians of the German Reformation. His truly pioneering spirit
comes to light in this collection of his most recent essays.
In the years before his death, Scribner explored the role of the
senses in late medieval devotional culture, and wondered how the
Reformation changed sensual attitudes. Further essays examine the
nature of popular culture and the way the Reformation was
institutionalised, considering Anabaptist ideals of the community
of goods, literacy and heterodoxy, and the dynamics of power as
they unfold in a case of witchcraft.
The final section of the book consists of three iconoclastic
essays, which, together, form a sustained assault on the argument
first advanced by Max Weber that the Reformation created a
rational, modern religion. Scribner shows that, far from being
rationalist and anti-magical, Protestants had their own brand of
magic. These fine essays are certain to spark off debate, not only
among historians of the Reformation, but also among art historians
and anyone interested in the nature of culture.
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