The Mother of the Reformation: The Amazing Life and Story of Katharine Luther

Name: The Mother of the Reformation: The Amazing Life and Story of Katharine Luther
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ISBN: 9780758635266

ISBN-10: 0758635265

ISBN-13: 9780758635266

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ernst Kroker

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Katharine was twenty six when forty-two-year-old Martin Luther determined to "Take my Kate to wife ere I die, to spite the devil." Would the marriage succeed? Ernst Kroker's compelling biographical account of Katharine von Bora relates that their marriage not only succeeded but also set a high standard for marriage and Christian family life for centuries to come, Kroker paints an intimate picture of Katie and of family life in the Black Cloister during the formative years of the Reformation, showing how Katie's marriage to Martin Luther was a multifaceted vocation, with such tasks as household brew-mistress, cloister landlady, property overseer, gardener, cow and pigherder, and fishwife.…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Concordia Pub House
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Translator's Dedication and Preface


Introduction


Maps


Lippendorf, Brehna, Nimbschen


From Nimbschen to Wittenberg


In Master Reichenbach's House


Katie Enters the Black Cloister


The Morning Star of Wittenberg


Children and Child-rearing


Members of the Household


Friends and Guests


Luther's Death


In Poverty


From Wittenberg to Torgau


Voices of Contemporaries and Opinions of Later Generations


Appendix


Timetable