Roland H. Bainton was the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, where he taught for forty-two years. His many well-known titles include Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950); The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (enl. ed. 1985); Martin Luther's Christmas Book (Augsburg Books, 1997) and Easter Book (Augsburg Books, 1997); and the recently reissued volumes Women of the Reformation: In France and England (Fortress Press, 1973) and Women of the Reformation: From Spain to Scandinavia (Fortress Press, 1977).