Steven Ozment

He attended the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship, and transferred to Hendrix College after two years, and graduated with a BA in 1960.

[1] He obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree at Drew Theological School in 1964, and a PhD at Harvard University in 1967.

[2] His dissertation, written under the supervision of Dutch intellectual historian Heiko Oberman, concerned the thought of Johannes Tauler, Jean Gerson and Martin Luther.

His Age of Reform, 1250–1550 (1980), based on his lecture notes for two survey courses at Yale,[4] won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award.

Ozment's study of the world of German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder was published by Yale University Press in June, 2013, under the title, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation.

The cover [1] of Ozment's A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People depicts medieval Nuremberg as shown in the Nuremberg Chronicle (here in grayscale)