UAA Prof. Ray Ball teaches Renaissance and Reformation History. In this talk, she discusses the historical context in which Martin Luther broke with the Catholic Church. In addition, she anaylzes the era of religious reformations and violence, how politicians with a variety of motivations exploited with and sought to constrain these movements, and the legacies of these movements that began 500 years ago. Ray Ball received her BA from the University of Oklahoma, her MA and PhD from the Ohio State University. She is author of Treating the Public, which focuses on the relationships between theater and charity in Catholic Spain and Protestant England and their Atlantic realms.