Roper, Lyndal

Roper’s close reading of the texts presents a rich, multidirectional history of an important historical period. And she writes like a dream. An exciting history book that’s likely to be the go-to study for years to come.

Rich with detail, scholarly but accessible, Roper's great biography of this critical, courageous, confrontational, and controversial figure provides a perfect work for the 500th anniversary of his Ninety-Five Theses. [See Prepub Alert, 9/26/16.]