Martin Luther (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Marius
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography and religion
- Time of Work: 1483-1546
- Setting: Western Europe, specifically Germany
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Religion, Christianity, Sixteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Germany or German people, Western Europe or western Europeans, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Reformation, Holy Roman Empire
- Locales: Europe, Germany
Richard Marius, professor emeritus of Harvard University, is a distinguished historian, novelist, playwright, and biographer. His numerous works include a well-received biography of Sir Thomas More, and now he has written what may well be the definitive biography of Martin Luther, “a narrative history about both events and ideas” of the sixteenth century. The critical tone of this book and much of its content are not unlike that of Marius’s earlier biography of Luther (Luther, 1974), but the current biography is a more challenging and scholarly work, broader and deeper in...
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