Lecture by the 2026 Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper.
The 2026 Holberg Prize is awarded to Australian scholar Lyndal Roper. Professor Roper is internationally recognized as one of the leading scholars of early modern European history.
Roper is the Regius Chair of History Emeritus at the University of Oxford. Her pioneering studies have reshaped understandings of witch persecutions, the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525), and the life and thought of Martin Luther, illuminating how gender, the body, psyche and power operated in social and religious conflicts of the sixteenth century. Roper’s work is widely renowned for its methodological innovativeness and capacity to cut across disciplinary boundaries.
