From priest's whore to pastor's wife
Subtitle: clerical marriage and the process of reform in the early German Reformation
By: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781409441540; 9781409441557
Subjects: Reformation; Marriage; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Magdeburg (Germany); Clergy; Family relationships; History; Catholic Church; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval dichotomies: concubinage and the celibate clergy; title: "Lest two stomachs suffer want" : clerical marriage and reform in Saxony, 1521-23; title: "More will follow hereafter" : evangelical clergy, public discourse, and the spectacle of weddings, 1523-25; title: "Nothing more than common whores and knaves" : married nuns and monks in the early German Reformation; title: Slanderous words and shameful lives : regulating clerical concubinage in an age of transition; title: "Partner in his calamities" : pastors' wives, nuns' husbands, and the female experience of clerical marriage; title: Caring for God's church : debating marriage and managing the pastors' household, 1526-1545.