Roper ends by assessing Luther's legacy in more recent years, in particular how he was presented in the former East Germany and how he was celebrated during the 2017 quincentenary year of the 95 Theses.
The work also analyses the images of Luther created by the artist Lucas Cranach that have become so instantly recognisable, showing how Luther carefully created the image of himself that he wanted to present to the world. In Living I Was Your Plague, Roper explores some of the more controversial aspects of Martin Luther's personality - his use of vulgar language, his pugilism, and his rampant anti-Semitism. She is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and of Balliol College, Oxford.īooks Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy She is currently Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. In 2002 she took up a Lectureship and Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. She has been Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1991–2) and has held Visiting positions at the Eisenberg Centre, Ann Arbor, the University of Western Australia, the Australian National University, Canberra, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Max Planck Institut, Göttingen. In 1986 she took up a non-permanent Lectureship at King’s College London, and moved in 1987 to a permanent post at Royal Holloway, University of London, becoming Professor in 1999 and establishing (with Amanda Vickery) the first Master’s programme in Women’s and Gender History. Scribner.īefore completing her doctorate, Roper began a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College at the University of Oxford (1983–6). She then moved to King’s College London where in 1985 she completed her PhD, supervised by Robert W. During her initial nearly two years in Germany, Roper studied with Heiko Oberman at the University of Tübingen, and worked with Ingrid Batori and Hans-Christoph Rublack. An award from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) allowed her to undertake study in Germany. Roper graduated from the University of Melbourne in history and philosophy in 1977 after which she received the first Caltex Woman Graduate of the Year scholarship and an additional scholarship from the University Women Graduates’ association. In 2011 she was appointed to Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Lyndal Anne Roper FRHistS FBA (born ) is a historian.
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