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

by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138118494
• ISBN13: 9781138118492
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"