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

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

St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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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 ...

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