U.K. praise for Martin Luther It s difficult to see how anyone could improve on this superb life of Luther. Lyndal Roper, Regius professor of history at Oxford University, has an extraordinary talent for making complex theological issues not just clear but entertaining. Luther jumps from these pages with immense vitality, as if his exploits occurred last week. Theological history often seems monochrome. This is Luther in colour. The Times Enlightening . . . [a] formidably learned biography . . . [Roper s] approach is avowedly new. The Sunday Times Beautifully written . . . It is certainly among the most interesting, provocative, and original biographies of Luther to appear in recent years one that tackles head on the challenge of entering into and exploring the interior life of its subject. . . . Anyone seriously interested in one of the most influential figures of the last half-millennium will need to make time to read this one. Literary Review"

Lyndal Roper is the first woman to hold the prestigious Regius Chair at Oxford University. She is one of the most respected scholars of early modern history on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the winner of the Gerda Henkel Prize (2016), and her previous books include Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany;Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe;The Witch in the Western Imagination;and The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg."