The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford Studies in Social History)
"Offers a fascinating and convincing history of patriarchy and Protestantism."--Journal of Social History"One of the most enlightening studies of the role of gender in the reformation era I have ever read.  It sheds much light on marriage as a social institution.  But most of all, it shows particularly how women became a focus and target of the social discipline protestants were so well known for."--Mack P. Holt,George Mason University"A major contribution to Reformation studies and a landmark in gender studies of early modern Europe....Represents the outcome of a very demanding and (unobtrusively) theoretically sophisticated rethinking of the meanings of political communalism and the urban Reformation....It is her union, I think, of theoretical clarity, scholarly learning, and broadly humane attitude, which makesHoly Householdan exciting book to read."--Sixteenth Century Journal"My students and I were very pleased withHoly Household....Provocative, scholarly, and well written."--J.W. Zophy,University of Houston-Clear Lake