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  • Summer of Fire and Blood

    The German Peasants' War

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Winner of the Cundill PrizeFrom a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.**“A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership.” -**Financial TimesThe German Peasants’ War was the greatest ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Martin Luther

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever.Within a few years Luther’s ideas had spread l... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Witch Craze

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Living I Was Your Plague

    Martin Luther's World and Legacy

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin 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 ... Read more

    Was $49.49 CAD Now $29.69 CAD

  • Oedipus and the Devil

    Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. ... Read more

    Was $79.69 CAD Now $71.44 CAD

  • The Witch in the Western Imagination

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Series series Richard Lectures
    In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead considers the witch as a symbolic and malleable figure through a broad sweep of topics and time ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Summer of Fire and Blood

    The German Peasants' War

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Narrated by Rose Akroyd ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    Winner of the Cundill PrizeFrom a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.**“A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its assessments, making it easily the most accessible study in English for a general readership.” -**Financial TimesThe German Peasants’ War was the greatest ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Witch Craze

    by Lyndal Roper ...

    $41.79 CAD

  • Disciplines of Faith

    Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy

    First Published in 1987. This volume has its remote origins in the 'Religion and Society' group - one of the feeders for 'History Workshop' - which began meeting at Nuffield College Oxford in 1965. The Group, which contained a number of people who were to become 'History Workshop' editors and contributors, began from a radical dissatisfaction at the exclusion of religion, as a central subject for ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Living I Was Your Plague

    Martin Luther's World and Legacy

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin 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 ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreams and History

    The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Daniel Pick, Lyndal Roper ...
    What is a dream?Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought.Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

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    The Gods of Olympus

    A History

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

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    The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD