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Ozment, Steven - The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

December 12, 2014

Steven Ozment. Yale University Press. Jan 3, 2012.
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This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Read more...

Steven Ozment
McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History

He taught Western Civ at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard and continues to teach it today. The author of ten books, his Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club and several have been translated into European, Asian, and/or South American languages. His latest is A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People. He is presently researching a study of the German world of artist Lucas Cranach, the Elder. Read more...