Susan Karant-Nunn: On Ghosts, Witches and Martin Luther’s Body

Posted on: September 9, 2010 in People & Places

Think medieval history is dull? What about religious fervor… thousands fleeing wars…the rejection of ghosts…the European “witch craze?” UA Regents Professor Susan Karant-Nunn knows why these things matter today. She’s a go-to scholar on the Reformation and Late Medieval era (1400-1800). Now she’s writing about Martin Luther’s body of works and his forthright “corporeal metaphors.”