Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe.(Review)

Journal of Social History | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

By Lyndal Roper (New York: Routledge, 1994. ix plus 254pp. $24.99).

In this collection of essays, Lyndal Roper explores religion, sex, and subjectivity in early modern Europe. Seven of these essays have been previously published; two appear here for the first time. A provocative introduction places the essays in a broader historiographic context and provides a framework for reading them as discrete explorations of several interwoven problems. Natalie Zemon Davis, Norbert Elias, Carlo Ginzburg, Judith Butler, Thomas Laqueur, Joan Scott, and Clifford Geertz, among ...

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