Making of a Reformation Man - Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Whitford, Whitford David M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032879024
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287902-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, History of Religion, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology