Lyndal Roper - Expert Historian on Witch Crazes and Martin Luther
Lyndal Roper, a renowned historian, is known for her expertise in witch crazes of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as her acclaimed biography on Martin Luther. Learn about her academic journey, notable works, and groundbreaking research in Early Modern Europe.
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Was born in Australia in 1956 She did her undergraduate degree in History with Philosophy at the University of Melbourne Then she went to study in Germany at the University of T bingen (in German, of course!) It was at King s College, University of London that she did her doctorate degree. After working at Royal Holloway, University of London, she moved to be Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford. In 2011 she was appointed Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. This is one of the highest jobs in academic history in the UK and Lyndal Roper is the first women to hold the post, and also (she thinks!) the first Australian. Professor Professor Lyndal Lyndal Roper Roper
She is an expert on witch crazes in the 16 She is an expert on witch crazes in the 16th th and 17 and 17th thcenturies centuries To be a fertile wife with plenty of children was to be honoured and respected. To be an old woman frequently meant poverty, infirmity, and humiliating dependence on the young." The image of the witch across Europe was remarkably consistent: "she was an old woman, and she attacked young children. Historians used to think that the Church accused people of witchcraft. Lyndal Roper s research shows that it was neighbours who accused old women they did not like.
Books written by Books written by Lyndal Roper Roper Lyndal Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet The Witch in the Western Imagination Witch Craze Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg
Martin Luther: Renegade Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet and Prophet Book of the Year 2016 for History Today, Sunday Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator THE biography in the English-speaking world to mark 500 years since Martin Luther s Reformation divided Roman Catholic Europe. Took 10 years to research Described by reviewers: deeply researched and fluently written impeccable scholarship and painstaking fair- mindedness the work of one of the most imaginative and pioneering historians of our generation exemplary history: imaginative yet empirical, rounded and profound
