7. Luther and His Catholic Readers: the Question of the Nuns

Catholic polemicists answered the Lutheran innovation of clerical marriage and especially the marriage of nuns with harsh criticism. Our contention is that, in the process of these ab hominem attacks against Luther and his wife, Katherina von Bora, they elaborated a literary type that they used to k...

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Main Author: Eléna Guillemard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jihi/article/view/2477

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