Presented By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)
The Premodern Colloquium. Luther and Anti-Papalism
Lyndal Roper, History, University of Oxford
"Living I was your plague, O Pope, dead, I will be your death." According to his personal doctor Ratzeberger, Luther wrote these words in chalk on the wall the night before he died. Ratzeberger is an unreliable witness, but the story of Luther writing in chalk certainly captures something that was at work in Luther’s deathbed scene...
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