A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

THE WESTERN IMAGE OF THE WITCH

Lyndal Roper, The Witch in the Western Imagination (Charlottesville & London: U. of Virginia Press, 2012) ("This collection of essays examines one particular cultural theme which has special importance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that of the figure of the witch . . . [F]undamentally, witchcraft is concerned with fantasy, and it produced some of the most important works of art of the period, from the witches of Durer and Baldung Grien to the dramas of Marlowe or Goethe." Id. at 1.).