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

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March 22, 1999
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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 others, serve as the signposts by which Roper situates her work.

These essays have three main ...

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