University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

Professor Lyndal Roper

PhD, FAHA
Professor of Early Modern History

Research Interests

Dr Roper works on the history of witchcraft in Germany between c1450 and 1750. She has published in the field of gender history and the religious and social history of early modern Germany

Selected Publications:

The holy household: Women and morals in Reformation Augsburg. (Oxford, 1989)
Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe. (Routledge, 1994)
''Evil imaginings and fantasies': Child-witches and the end of the witch-craze', Past and Present. Vol 167 (2000) pp. 107-139
(ed.) RW Scribner, Religion and culture in Germany 1400-1800 (Posthumously collected essays of RW Scribner) . (2001)
(ed.) Dreams and history. The interpretation of dreams fromAncient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis . (London, 2004) 276pp.
Witch Craze. Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. (London, 2004) 362pp.
'Witchcraft and the Western Imagination', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Vol 16 (2006) pp. 117-141
(ed.) The Art of survival: essays in honour of Dame Olwen Hufton . Vol 1 (Oxford, 2006)
'Witchcraft, Nostalgia and the Rural Idyll in Eighteenth-Century Germany', Past and Present . Vol 1(1) (2006) pp. 139-158
'Introduction' in The Art of Survival: essays in honour of Dame Olwen Hufton. (Oxford, 2006)
'‘The Suicidal Student’ ' in Alltag, Erfahrung, Eigensinn. Historisch-anthropoloigsche Erkundungen. (Frankfurt a.M., 2008) pp. 135-50
' ‘The Gorgon of Augsburg’ ' in Women, Identities and Communities in early modern Europe., Festschrift for Patricia Crawford. (Farnham , 2008)
'‘Venus in Wittenberg: Cranach, Luther, and Sensuality’In ' in Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany.. (Farnham , 2009) pp. 81-98

Future Publications:

''The Stout Doctor': Martin Luther's Body', American Historical Review. (2010)
The Witch in the Western Imagination. (2010)

Research Interests and Activities

Early Modern Britain and Europe