Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper (born May 28, 1956 in Melbourne ) is an Australian historian who teaches in Great Britain . Her research focus is the German cultural , religious and social history of the early modern period with a special focus on gender roles , body history , sexuality and the persecution of witches .
Life
Roper studied at the Universities of Melbourne and Tübingen and received his doctorate from King's College London . She has taught at Royal Holloway Colleges , London , Balliol College, Oxford , and currently Oriel College, Oxford .
In 2011 she became the first woman to be Regius Professor of History at Oxford University .
Awards
For 2016 she was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize . In the same year she was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
Publications (German)
- Oedipus and the devil. Body and Psyche in the Early Modern Age . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12765-3 .
- The pious house. Women and Morals in the Reformation . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-593-36209-0 .
- Witch madness. Story of a persecution . Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54047-9 .
- The fat doctor - Luther, his body and his biographers . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1158-9 .
- The man Martin Luther - The biography . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-066088-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lyndal Roper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait on Oxford University information portal.
- Review notes on books by Lyndal Roper on the information portal perlentaucher .
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| SURNAME | Roper, Lyndal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian historian, professor at Oxford |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |