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Historical person
1483–1546
Martin Luther was the German theologian whose challenge to indulgences helped begin the Protestant Reformation. His writings attacked papal authority, promoted justification by faith and encouraged translation and debate, while imperial attempts to suppress him failed after the Diet of Worms.
Mika Waltari’s The Adventurer places Martin Luther within a narrative shaped by religion, belief and institutional authority, political ambition and government, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter.
Series
The Mikael duology follows the Finnish scholar and adventurer Mikael Karvajalka through the upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe and the Ottoman world. The first novel places him amid the Reformation, peasant revolt, dynastic conflict and the Sack of Rome; the second follows his conversion to Islam and rise as…
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