Lyndal Roper

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Full Name	Lyndal Roper
Occupation	Historian Of The Modern Age
Date Of Birth	May 28, 1956(1956-05-28)
Age	68
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Taurus

Lyndal Roper Biography

Lyndal Roper is one of the most popular and richest Historian Of The Modern Age who was born on May 28, 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Roper is currently writing a history about the German Peasants’ War (1524-5).

Roper was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize in History for her lifetime achievements in 2016. She currently holds the Humboldt Research Award, which is associated with the Free University Berlin. This award supports research in Germany. She is Honorary Fellow of the History Department, University of Melbourne, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2009), Fellow of the British Academy (2011), and Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin (2016). She is also an honorary doctorate holder of the University of Melbourne.

Witch Craze explores the role of unconscious fantasy in history by taking four case studies of witch hunting in southern Germany, the region with the highest number of executions of people accused as witches. Using extensive archival sources, including original trial transcripts, the book studies the psychology of witch-hunting, arguing that what powered these witch-hunts were fears surrounding fertility. Roper examines ‘why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.’ The book has been translated into German with Beck (Hexenwahn: Geschichte einer Verfolgung) and was awarded the Roland H Bainton Prize in 2005.

Roper’s first book questioned the ways in which the Reformation changed gender relations, focussing on the case study of Augsburg, one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire. Exploring the idea of ‘civic righteousness,’ Roper argued that the Reformation developed a theology of gender whereby the roles of men and women were clearly distinct within the vision of the ‘holy household.’ Whilst previously the effect of the Reformation on women was regarded as beneficial, this book argues that the status of women was instead worsened. The book has been translated into German and has been reprinted several times.

Lyndal Anne Roper, a historian. She was born in Melbourne (Australia). She is a historian of German history from the 16th to 18th centuries and has written a biography about Martin Luther. Her research focuses on gender and the Reformation as well as witchcraft and visual culture. She was the first Australian woman to be appointed to the Regius Chair of Historical Studies (founded 1724) at Oxford University in 2011.

Lyndal Roper Net Worth

Lyndal Roper is one of the richest Historian Of The Modern Age from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lyndal Roper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Roper received her University of Melbourne degree in Philosophy and History in

1977. She also received the first Caltex Woman Graduate of Year scholarship in 1977 and an additional scholarship through the University Women Graduates’ Association. Roper was able to study in Germany thanks to a German Academic Exchange Service award. Roper spent her first nearly two years in Germany studying with Heiko Oberman, Ingrid Batori, and Hans-Christoph Rublack. After graduating from King’s College London, she was supervised by Robert W. Scribner and completed her PhD in 1985.

Roper completed her doctorate in 1986 and began a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, University of Oxford (1982-193). She was appointed a lectureship at King’s College London in 1986. In 1987, she became a professor at Royal Holloway University of London. Amanda Vickery also established the first Master’s program in Women’s and Gender History. She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1992-2001) and held Visiting positions at the Eisenberg Center, Ann Arbor, University of Western Australia and Freie Universitat Berlin. She was awarded a Fellowship and Lectureship at Balliol College in Oxford in 2002. She is currently Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College. She is an honorary fellow of Merton College in Oxford and Balliol College in Oxford.

A collection of nine interconnected essays, Oedipus and the Devil explores subjects ranging from the literary culture of the sixteenth century, to early- modern sexual attitudes and ideas regarding femininity and masculinity, to issues surrounding the complex development of marriage, and the use of psychoanalysis in studying witchcraft. Roper examines why a woman would kill her child, why someone would confess to living with the devil like husband and wife, and why a famous banker might employ a village clairvoyant (‘Dorf hellseherin’). The work has been translated into German with Fischer Taschenbuch (Ödipus und der Teufel: Körper und Psyche in der Frühen Neuzeit) and is widely cited.

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