Lyndal Roper: 8 books

In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead...

En el V centenario de la Reforma, Taurus publica la biografía definitiva de Martin Lutero. Cuando Martín Lutero clavó una hoja de papel a la puerta de la iglesia de una pequeña ciudad universitaria el 31 de octubre de 1517, desencadenó un proceso que cambió el mundo occidental para siempre. Las...

In ‘Luther’ vertelt hoogleraar geschiedenis Lyndal Roper het levensverhaal van de Duitse Maarten Luther. Als de dan nog onbekende Maarten Luther op 31 oktober 1517 in een Duits stadje een theologisch pamflet op de deuren van de kerk spijkert, kan hij niet voorzien dat die daad het begin zal vormen...

From “one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers” (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. “Magnificent.”—The...

Warum tötet eine Frau ihr Kind? Warum gesteht eine andere, mit dem Teufel wie Mann und Frau gelebt zu haben? Warum beschäftigt ein berühmter Bankier und Kaufmann eine Dorfhellseherin? Und was verbirgt sich hinter der frühneuzeitlichen Mode der opulenten Schamkapseln? Lyndal Roper bietet überraschende...

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...

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.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.