Steven E. Ozment

Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife

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Three Behaim boys : Growing up in early modern Germany

Through correspondence to mothers and guardians, the reader experiences the lives of three generations of German boys in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

An Aid to Luther's Marginal Comments on Johannes Tauler's Sermons

In his early years, Martin Luther read and critically annotated the sermons of the German mystical theologian, Johannes Tauler O.P. (*1360). This occurred between early 1515 and mid-1516—a crucial if not the most critical period in the development of the young Luther. The copy of Taulers sermons used by Luther was the personal copy of his friend Johannes Lang. It was published by Hannsen Otmar in Augsburg in 1508.

Family, Religion, and the Making of Godly Citizens: A Case Study from the 1530s

Both family and church had a large stake in the religious education of children in early modern Europe, although their contributions were disproportionate and their goals were not necessarily the same. The Church provided and enforced an orthodox body of knowledge, but its fleshing out and implementation in the lives of children lay largely within the family, whose associations with religion were overwhelmingly personal and pragmatic. And while both institutions appreciated the prophylactic qualities of religious education, both in this life and in the next, the churchs mission lay in the creation of believers and donors, the familys in assuring a childs physical survival and worldly success. In the burgher households of early modem Germany, Catholic and Protestant alike, the religious armoring of children began virtually from quickening, even conception, and it continued through a childs departure from the household in his or her mid to late teens, by which time religious teaching and values were as ...

When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe

PART 1: IN DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE 1. Celibacy and Marriage 2. The Liberation of Women from Cloisters 3. Disciplining Marriage PART 2: HUSBANDS AND WIVES 4. The Duties of Spouses 5. The Wives of Hermann von Weinsberg 6. Divorce and Remarriage PART 3: THE BEARING OF CHILDREN 7. The Bearing of Children 8. The World of the Expectant Mother 9. The Care of the Newborn 10. The Trials of Infancy 11. A Childs Sense of Mortality PART 4: THE REARING OF CHILDREN 12. The Measure of a Child 13. Discipline, Duty, and Love 14. The Weinsberg Men as Fathers 15. Sin and Mortality 16. The Faith of Our Fathers Abbreviations Works Frequently Cited Notes Index

The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Examines the Protestant Reformation, its philosophical and theological issues, and the interaction of religious, social, and political changes.