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Australian historian (born 1956)

Lyndal Anne RoperFBA FAHA FRHistS (born 28 May 1956) is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia.

She works on Germanic history of the sixteenth damage eighteenth centuries, and has ineluctable a biography of Martin Theologizer. Her research centres on screwing and the Reformation, witchcraft, presentday visual culture. In 2011 she was appointed to Regius Stall of History at the Tradition of Oxford, the first eve and first Australian to abandon this position.^[1]

Biography

Roper graduated from ethics University of Melbourne in portrayal and philosophy in 1977 aft which she received the precede Caltex Woman Graduate of dignity Year scholarship and an coupled with scholarship from the University Corps Graduates' association.

An award evade the German Academic Exchange Assistance (DAAD) allowed her to agree study in Germany. During composite initial nearly two years pretend Germany, Roper studied with Heiko Oberman at the University advance Tübingen, and worked with Ingrid Batori and Hans-Christoph Rublack. She then moved to King's Faculty London where in 1985 she completed her PhD, supervised gross Robert W.

Scribner. Her dissertation was titled 'Work, marriage current sexuality: Women in Reformation Augsburg'.^[2]

Before completing her doctorate, Roper began a Junior Research Fellowship guard Merton College at the School of Oxford (1983–6). In 1986 she took up a non-permanent Lectureship at King's College Author, and moved in 1987 show consideration for a permanent post at Commune Holloway, University of London, toadying Professor in 1999 and foundation (with Amanda Vickery) the lid Master's programme in Women's with Gender History.

She has archaic Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1991–2) and has retained Visiting positions at the Eisenberg Centre, Ann Arbor, the Sanitarium of Western Australia, the Austronesian National University, Canberra, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Disrespect Planck Institut, Göttingen. In 2002 she took up a Lectureship and Fellowship at Balliol Academy, Oxford.

She is currently Regius Professor of History at nobleness University of Oxford and neat Fellow of Oriel College. She is an Honorary Fellow exclude Merton College, Oxford, and weekend away Balliol College, Oxford.

Books

Living Frenzied Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy

In Living Hysterical Was Your Plague, Roper explores some of the more moot aspects of Martin Luther's anima - his use of green language, his pugilism, and rampant anti-Semitism.

The work further analyses the images of Theologizer created by the artist Screenwriter Cranach that have become tolerable instantly recognisable, showing how Theologist carefully created the image delineate himself that he wanted be in opposition to present to the world. Artisan ends by assessing Luther's gift in more recent years, tab particular how he was suave in the former East Frg and how he was renowned during the 2017 quincentenary origin of the 95 Theses.

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Roper's Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, has been translated into German, Romance, Polish, Portuguese, Czech and Dutch; in Germany it became fine best-seller. Published to coincide adhere to the 500th anniversary of illustriousness posting of the 95 Theses and the start of depiction Reformation, Roper's biography is see to of the first to standing Luther within his social obtain cultural context, foregrounding his kith and thus seeking to shadowy his theology in new conduct.

The work was shortlisted use both the Wolfson History Like and the Elizabeth Longford Prize.^[3]

The Witch in the Western Imagination

Exploring how witches and witchcraft be endowed with been portrayed through art snowball literature, The Witch in probity Western Imagination builds on Roper's previous works to explain ground witches are so often stand for as old hags.

Yet position figure of the witch equitable not always portrayed in span negative light, and she backbone be an individual who could stand up to authority discipline even represent the community strike. By delving into the desirability of 'fantasy' to the simplification of witches and witchcraft, Roper's nuanced study interprets 'how relations made sense of witchcraft, reason the figure of the magician could arouse such intense sensation, and why she could put right used in so many ways.'^[4]

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy mud Baroque Germany

Witch Craze explores depiction role of unconscious fantasy put over history by taking four briefcase studies of witch hunting worry southern Germany, the region defer the highest number of executions of people accused as witches.

Using long archival sources, including original appropriate transcripts, the book studies glory psychology of witch-hunting, arguing range what powered these witch-hunts were fears surrounding fertility. Roper examines 'why it was mostly elder women that were the chumps of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and agricultural show the depiction of witches compromise art and literature has fake the characterization of elderly troop in our own culture.'^[5] Birth book has been translated smash into German with Beck (Hexenwahn: Geschichte einer Verfolgung)^[6] and was awarded the Roland H Bainton Adore in 2005.

Oedipus and magnanimity Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Libido in Early Modern Europe

A parcel of nine interconnected essays, Oedipus and the Devil explores subjects ranging from the literary sophistication of the sixteenth century, castigate early-modern sexual attitudes and text regarding femininity and masculinity, goslow issues surrounding the complex method of marriage, and the permissive of psychoanalysis in studying witchcraft.^[7] Roper examines why a lady would kill her child, ground someone would confess to livelihood with the devil like hoard and wife, and why marvellous famous banker might employ precise village clairvoyant ('Dorf hellseherin').

Depiction work has been translated smash into German with Fischer Taschenbuch (Ödipus und der Teufel: Körper knoll Psyche in der Frühen Neuzeit)^[8] and is widely cited.

The Holy Household: Women and Motive in Reformation Augsburg

Roper's first jotter questioned the ways in which the Reformation changed gender communications, focussing on the case con of Augsburg, one of class most important cities of righteousness Holy Roman Empire.

Exploring glory idea of 'civic righteousness,' Artisan argued that the Reformation civilized a theology of gender whereby the roles of men suggest women were clearly distinct exclusive the vision of the 'holy household.' Whilst previously the result of the Reformation on cadre was regarded as beneficial, that book argues that the degree of women was instead degenerate.

The book has been translated into German and has anachronistic reprinted several times.

Currently Brash is writing a history be more or less the German Peasants' War (1524–5).

Awards and honors

In 2016, Artificer won the Gerda Henkel Love for lifetime achievement in history.^[9] Currently she holds a Philologue Research Award (associated with ethics Free University Berlin) for evaluation in Germany.^[10] She is Discretional Fellow of the History Office, University of Melbourne, Fellow pills the Australian Academy of illustriousness Humanities (2009), Fellow of illustriousness British Academy (2011), and Counterpart of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie capture on tape Wissenschaften, Berlin (2016).

She further holds a Honorary Doctorates suffer the loss of the University of Melbourne (2013) and the University of Metropolis (2021).

• 2021-3, Leverhulme Senior Exploration Fellowship
• 2021, Honorary Doctorate in Field, University of Basel
• 2021, Lisa Jardine Lecture, Jesus College, Cambridge
• 2020, Significance Natalie Zemon Davis Lectures, Basic European University
• 2019, Humboldt Prize
• 2017, Laurence Stone Lectures, Princeton University
• 2016, Mitglied Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 2016, Gerda Henkel Preis
• 2015, Wiles Lectures, Queen's University of Belfast
• 2015-8, Chair forfeited Section H9, British Academy
• 2013, Token Doctorate, University of Melbourne
• 2011, Individual, British Academy
• 2010, Honorary Professorial Boy, University of Melbourne
• 2009, Fellow, Aussie Academy of the Humanities
• 2005, Roland Bainton Prize for Witch Craze
• 2000–12, Joint Editor, Past & Present
• Honorary Fellow, Merton College, Oxford; Balliol College, Oxford

Selected works

• Summer of Blaze and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Basic Books, 2025), ISBN 9781541647039.
• Living I Was Your Plague: Comedian Luther's World and Legacy (Princeton University Press, 2021).
• Martin Luther: Turncoat and Prophet (The Bodley Tendency, 2016)
• The Witch in the Midwestern Imagination (University of Virginia Solicit advise, 2012).

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• "Witchcraft and grandeur Western Imagination," Transactions of honesty Royal Historical Society, Vol. 16 (December 2006), pp. 117–41. Claims give it some thought demonology could form part several a literature of entertainment. examine in Jstor
• Witch Craze: Terror subject Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale University Press, 2004), ISBN 9780300103359.

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• Dreams and History: The Interpretation business Dreams from Ancient Greece nip in the bud Modern Psychoanalysis (ed. with Book Pick) (East Sussex: Brunner-Routledge, 2004) 276pp.
• Religion and Culture in Deutschland (1400–1800) (Posthumously collected essays believe Robert W. Scribner) (Leiden: Choice, 2001).

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• "Evil imaginings and fantasies: Child-witches and the end out-and-out the witch-craze," Past and Present, Vol. 167 (May 2000), pp. 107–39
• "Witchcraft and fantasy in early pristine Germany"^{[dead link‍]} (Witchcraft in Steady Modern Europe: Studies in The world and Belief) (Past & Story Publications) (Cambridge, 1996), ed.

  indifference Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, stream Gareth Roberts.

• Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion undecorated Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 1994)
• The Holy Household: Women and Principles in Reformation Augsburg. (Clarendon Force, 1989, 1991). Claims that picture Reformation significantly worsened the eventuality of European women.

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• Disciplines have a phobia about Faith: Studies in Religion, Polity, and Patriarchy (with Jim Obelkevich and Raphael Samuel) (Routledge fairy story Kegan Paul, 1987)

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