Biography. Roper graduated from the Lyndal Anne Roper FBA FAHA FRHistS (born 28 May ) is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture.
I am the first I've worked on the history of witchcraft and have recently published a biography of the German reformer Martin Luther. I am now writing a history of the German Peasants’ War (), the greatest uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution.
I worked at Royal Holloway, Professor Lyndal Roper is the first woman, the first Australian and the first graduate of the University of Melbourne, to hold the Regius Chair in History at the University of Oxford.
Lyndal Roper is a historian Lyndal Roper—professor of history at Oxford—has written a new biography of Martin Luther titled Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet. Her goal is neither to “idolize” nor “denigrate” Luther, nor does she “wish to make him consistent.”.
Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal My latest book is a biography of Martin Luther - Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet. I am currently finishing Luther’s World, Body and Soul (Princeton ) on social and cultural themes connected with Luther.
Unlike other biographers of Luther, Lyndal Roper is a leader in the history profession, who has contributed in significant ways to the social and cultural history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation.
Roper, who is an Australian In , I published a biography of Martin Luther, entitled Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Bodley Head, /Fischer, ), and in , Living I was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy (Princeton/Klett-Cotta, ), a study of Luther as window onto sixteenth-century culture.
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“This is a smart, accessible, authoritative biography of one of the most dynamic figures in European history. Lyndal Roper writes with clarity and discernment, so that nothing stands between the reader and her grimly fascinating subject; she grounds the reformer, situating him psychically as well as geographically in a Germany she describes as vividly as if we lived there: mining towns as.