Lyndal Roper
Australian historian (born 1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lyndal Anne Roper FBA FAHA FRHistS (born 28 May 1956) is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. In 2011 she was appointed to Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position.[1]
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Born | (1956-05-28) 28 May 1956 (age 67) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
Title | Regius Professor of History |
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Thesis | Work, marriage and sexuality: Women in Reformation Augsburg (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert W. Scribner |
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