The World Took Sides
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Martin Luther, 11 August 2016
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Centre of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe – and Started the Protestant Reformation
by Andrew Pettegree.
Penguin, 383 pp., £21.99, October 2015,978 1 59420 496 8 Show More
by Andrew Pettegree.
Penguin, 383 pp., £21.99, October 2015,
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
by Lyndal Roper.
Bodley Head, 577 pp., £30, June 2016,978 1 84792 004 1 Show More
by Lyndal Roper.
Bodley Head, 577 pp., £30, June 2016,
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
by Scott H. Hendrix.
Yale, 341 pp., £25, October 2015,978 0 300 16669 9 Show More
by Scott H. Hendrix.
Yale, 341 pp., £25, October 2015,
“... and it is no coincidence that two of the three new Luther biographies are aimed at the US market. Andrew Pettegree’s publishers seem to be trying to appeal to it through one of those inordinately long subtitles beginning with ‘How …’ beloved of the serious-minded American reading public. Maybe, however, it’s one of ... ”
