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From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation

From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1409441547
ISBN13: 9781409441540
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2012
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
On 13 June 1525, Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in a private ceremony officiated by city preacher Johann Bugenhagen. Whilst Luther was not the first former monk or Reformer to marry, his marriage immediately became one of the iconic episodes of the Protestant Reformation. From that point on, the marital status of clergy would be a pivotal dividing line between the Catholic and Protestant churches. Tackling the early stages of this divide, this book provides a fresh assessment of clerical marriage in the first half of the sixteenth century. It investigates the way that clerical marriage was received, and viewed in the dioceses of Mainz and Magdeburg under Archbishop Albrecht von Hohenzollern from 1513 to 1545. By concentrating on a cross-section of rural and urban settings from three key regions within this territory, Saxony, Franconia, and Swabia, the study is able to present a broad comparison of reactions to this contentious issue.

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