David Luebke

David M. Luebke is a historian of early modern Europe whose work focuses on the religions and political cultures of ordinary people the German-speaking lands. His second book—Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia, 1535–1650—appeared in 2016 with the University of Virginia Press. In 2017, Hometown Religion won the Gerald Strauss Prize for “the best book published in English in the field of German Reformation history.” His most recent book—The Empire's Reformations: Religion and Politics in Germany, 1495-1648—appeared in 2024 with Bloomsbury Academic. He is currently at work on a book about shared religious spaces in early modern Europe, from the sixteenth century to the present. Luebke is also series co-editor of Studies in Central European Histories.

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