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 …

The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian
centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of …

Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster is the first study of how
women from different backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on …

Regiert" König Sex" die Welt? Und war das schon immer so? Wie gestalteten sich vor dem
18. Jahrhundert sexuelle Beziehungen vor, in und außerhalb der Ehe? Welche Probleme …

Muss ein katholischer Priester einen unversehrten Körper haben? Darf ein Geistlicher einen
physischen Makel verbergen? Was geschieht, wenn das weibliche Geschlecht einer Nonne …

Historians have examined the Reformations' numerous effects on sixteenth-century beliefs
and practices concerning marriage, the family, and sex. While some historians have extolled …

Protestant Europe since the sixteenth century has been characterized by national—or in
some cases territorial—churches, through which political identity and ecclesiastical identity …

It is evident unto all men, diligently readinge holye scripture, and auncient aucthours, that
from the Apostles tyme, there hathe bene these orders of Ministers in Christes church …

Dass die Erforschung von illegitimen Kindern, zumal illegitimen Töchtern, nicht nur in
Paderborn bislang wenig vorangeschritten ist, hat nach Widder unterschiedliche Gründe …

In a succinct 1972 essay titled “Clergymen as Citizens,” the Göttingen church historian
Bernd Moeller analyzed what he saw as the long-term historical tension in the towns of …