From priest's whore to pastor's wife : clerical marriage and the process of reform in the early German Reformation /
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer.
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
- xv, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- [St. Andrews studies in Reformation history] .
- St. Andrews studies in Reformation history. .
Medieval dichotomies: concubinage and the celibate clergy -- "Lest two stomachs suffer want" : clerical marriage and reform in Saxony, 1521-1523 -- "More will follow hereafter" : evangelical clergy, public discourse, and the spectacle of weddings, 1523-1525 -- "Nothing more than common whores and knaves" : married nuns and monks in the early German Reformation -- Slanderous words and shameful lives : regulating clerical concubinage in an age of transition -- "Partner in his calamities" : pastors' wives, nuns' husbands, and the female experience of clerical marriage -- Caring for God's church : debating marriage and managing the pastors' household, 1526-1545.