Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation
by
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
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....