The Making of a Reformation Man

This volume explores how Martin Luther's life and teachings reshaped and redefined masculinity during the Reformation, offering a more nuanced portrayal of him as a man grappling with the complexities of fatherhood, marriage, and the battlegrounds of religious controversy.

Autorentext

David M. Whitford is Professor of Reformation Studies at Baylor University, USA, and is a cultural historian of Early Modern Christianity. In 2023, he served as President of the Sixteenth Century Society. He co-edited Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age in 2021.

Klappentext

This volume explores how Martin Luther's life and teachings reshaped and redefined masculinity during the Reformation, offering a more nuanced portrayal of him as a man grappling with the complexities of fatherhood, marriage, and the battlegrounds of religious controversy.

Inhalt

1. I, Luther, still live! Luther as Virile Monk and Godly Hero Part 1: The Unmaking of the Monastic Man 2. Cockfights and Feathers Flying: Slander and the Academic Man 3. Brother Martin Is Dead: Lust, Sex, & Celibacy from the Wartburg to Wittenberg Part 2: The Making of a New Reformation Man 4. Son and Husband of Strong and Ambitious Women: Margarethe Luder and Katharina von Bora 5. From Whore-Bride to Shared Suffering: Finding Empathy in Marriage and Fatherhood 6. A Grieving, Womanish Heart: Luther on Grief Part 3: The Old Man and the New: Living in Both Worlds 7. The Limits of Empathy: Examining Sexual Violence among the Reformers 8. Sexualized Slander: Sodomy and the Defense of the Reformation 9. Finding the Godly Man: Reforming Masculinity