Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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
Summary
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
