Living I Was Your Plague, Lyndal Roper
Living I Was Your Plague, Lyndal Roper
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Living I Was Your Plague
Martin Luther's World and Legacy

Author: Lyndal Roper

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2021


Synopsis

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image

Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther carefully crafted his own image and how he has been portrayed in his own times and ours, painting a unique portrait of the man who set in motion a revolution that sundered Western Christendom.

Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal Roper examines how the painter Lucas Cranach produced images that made the reformer an instantly recognizable character whose biography became part of Lutheran devotional culture. She reveals what Luther's dreams have to say about his relationships and discusses how his masculinity was on the line in his devastatingly crude and often funny polemical attacks. Roper shows how Luther's hostility to the papacy was unshaken to the day he died, how his deep-rooted anti-Semitism infused his theology, and how his memorialization has given rise to a remarkable flood of kitsch, from "Here I Stand" socks to Playmobil Luther.

About Lyndal Roper

Lyndal Roper is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her books include Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet and Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. She lives in Oxford, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mir on May 29, 2023

Lyndal Roper has already written a monumental biography of Maritin Luther. You know, the kind of book that is so monumental that it can undoubtedly be used as a weapon. So why another book? She asks and answers that question in the preface to this little collection of essays. When the 500th annivers......more

Goodreads review by Toby on December 07, 2022

This is a series of essays following up Lyndal Roper's highly successful and readable biography of Luther. The biography was published just in time for the great Lutherfest of 2017 and these essays take us on from that retrospective to examine Luther's legacy - how he was portrayed in his own lifeti......more

Goodreads review by Don on February 26, 2025

Extremely hard-to-read book. It is clear from the start that Ms. Roper does not like Luther. She still does not like him or, so it seems, Luther's followers (Lutherans).......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 06, 2021

Interesting premise. i am not sure she pulls off what she intends.......more