Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Luther on Women

A Sourcebook
Herausgeber: Karant-Nunn, Susan C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together a wide selection of Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of them translated into English for the first time. The book makes Luther's sermons, lectures, pamphlets, polemic writings, letters and informal 'table talk' accessible to English-speaking scholars, students and general readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521658843
• ISBN-10: 0521658845
• Artikelnr.: 21090455

Autorenporträt

Merry Wiesner is Professor of History and Director, Comparative Study of Religion Program and the Center for Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Susan Karant-Nunn is Professor of History and Director, Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Eve and the nature of women
3. Mary
4. Biblical women other than Eve and Mary
5. Marriage and the family
6. Sexuality
7. Childbirth
8. Katharina von Bora, Luther's wife
9. Luther and other contemporary women
10. Witchcraft and magic
Further reading
Index.