Roper, Lyndal,

Martin Luther : renegade and prophet / Lyndal Roper. - First edition. - xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mansfeld and mining -- The scholar -- The monastery -- Wittenberg -- Journeys and disputations -- The Leipzig debate -- The freedom of a Christian -- The Diet of Worms -- In the Wartburg -- Karlstadt and the Christian city of Wittenberg -- The Black Bear Inn -- The Peasants' War -- Marriage and the flesh -- Breakdown -- Augsburg -- Consolidation -- Friends and enemies -- Hatreds -- The charioteer of Israel.

"Examining the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, the author reveals a literary genius who was full of contradictions and whose Ninety-Five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history"--NoveList.

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Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.


Reformation--Germany--Biography.
Lutheran Church--Clergy--Germany--Biography.


Biographies

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284.1092 B