TY - BOOK AU - Plummer,Marjorie Elizabeth TI - From priest's whore to pastor's wife: clerical marriage and the process of reform in the early German Reformation T2 - [St. Andrews studies in Reformation history] SN - 9781409441540 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2012/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Reformation KW - Clergy KW - Family relationships KW - History KW - Marriage KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity N1 - 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 ER -