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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2013

Spalte:

1116–1118

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Reformationszeit

Autor/Hrsg.:

Kommer, Dorothee

Titel/Untertitel:

Reformatorische Flugschriften von Frauen. Flugschriftenautorinnen der frühen Reformationszeit und ihre Sicht von Geistlichkeit.

Verlag:

Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2013. 420 S. = Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte, 40. Geb. EUR 48,00. ISBN 978-3-374-03163-4.

Rezensent:

Peter Matheson

The merits of this book by Dorothee Kommer are manifold. For the first time all the evangelical women pamphleteers of the early German Reformation are treated together. The names of Katharina Schütz Zell, Argula von Grumbach, or Ursula Weyda are well known, but they are joined here by Margareta von Treskow, the fascinating Florentina von Oberweimar, Ursula von Münsterberg, and three anonymous writers. The opportunity this gives to compare their views and influence is enhanced by a comprehensive list of the biblical quotations each deploys, a decidedly useful tool. The historical introductions to each author are up with the latest re­-search, and are impressively extensive, often introducing new ma­terial. Judgements are cautious, but K. does not hesitate to correct eminent authorities ...


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