Lyndal Roper is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her books include Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Random House) and Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. She lives in Oxford, England.
"Roper’s book proves that a rigorously scholarly work can also be a
pleasure to read."---Dan Hitchens, The Times
"Roper questions Luther’s character and legacy with the same
anti-authoritarianismthat animated her subject, combining acuity
with wit and levity, just as Luther did— though with fewer
obscenities."---Suzannah Lipscomb, A Financial Times Best Book Of
The Week
"Provocative and thought-provoking, Living I Was Your Plague is an
important contribution to our understanding of the life and
afterlife of one of history’s most complex figures, and a lively
testament to the striking originality of Roper’s
scholarship."---Alexandra Walsham, Times Literary Supplement
"Through its thematic approach this collection says much that could
not be said in the inevitably heroic format of the biography. It
provides insights that will shape the reader’s experience of every
future encounter with Luther. It integrates visual and material
culture brilliantly throughout, arguing that from Cranach’s early
portraits to Playmobil’s bestselling Luther figurine, images must
be central to our interpretation of the Reformation. And it offers
a critical reflection – wonderfully personal in places – on the
experience of writing biography and living as a historian through a
period of intense public interest. At a moment at which tensions
over race and heritage have coalesced around public representations
of historical men this collection provides a moral compass for
those seeking to write the histories of heroes with dark
sides."---Bridget Heal, History Today
"After an outpouring of books about Luther at the time of the
quicentenary, one could have been forgiven for thinking. . . that
there wasn't much of interest left to be said. In her ambition to
tackle together the life and the legend, and her avowed
determination to appraise Luther in a thorougly Lutheran spirit of
anti-authoritarianism, Lyndal Roper has triumphantly demonstrated
the contrary."---Peter Marshall, The Tablet
"[Living I Was Your Plague] may unsettle in ways that open diligent
readers to new vision. The book accomplishes something that few of
the books about Luther occasioned by the 2017 anniversary
accomplished: it sees Luther with fresh eyes and shows us why we
need to wrestle with his legacy."---Vincent Evener, Christian
Century
"Roper questions Luther’s character and legacy with the same
anti-authoritarianism that animated her subject, combining acuity
with wit and levity, just as Luther did — though with fewer
obscenities. But it is those obscenities that Roper, Regius
Professor of History at the University of Oxford, has in mind, as
she grapples with how to understand an intellectual in the context
of their whole self, conscious and unconscious, warts and
all."---Suzannah Lipscomb, Financial Times
"Intelligent and absorbing"---Sean Sheehan, The Prisma
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