Living I Was Your Plague - Martin Luthers World and Legacy - Lyndal Roper Gebunden

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. 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 gi ven rise to a remarkable flood of kitsch from Here I Stand? socks to Playmobil Luther. Lavishly illustrated Living I Was Your Plague is a splendid work of cultural history that sheds new light on the complex and enduring legacy of Luther and his image.