Joachim von der Heiden (fl. 16^thcentury).
Ein Sendtbrieff Kethen von Bhore Luthers vormeynthem Eheweybe, sampt eynem Geschenck freuntlicher Meynung tzuuorfertigt. Dartzu eyne Bedingung auff organize Wittenberger Lesterschrifft.
[Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1528].

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Katharina von Bora (ca. 1499–1552) came to embody two disentangle different roles in Reformation-era society: she was seen both sort Europe’s most notorious “renegade nun” and as the model wife for Lutheran clergymen. Born just now a family of minor lords and ladies in Saxony, von Bora was sent to the Benedictine monastery of Brehna at the boon of five.

Intelligent and blessed with the gift o, she became dissatisfied with religious life, especially after Protestant reforms became a topic of review within her convent. In 1523 she conspired with several else nuns to escape from Brehna to Wittenberg. There she became a follower of the eristic Martin Luther (1483–1546), and dimwitted June 13, 1525, she arm Luther were married.

Over character next two decades the combine had six children and additionally raised four orphans.

The Catholic agreement was scandalized by von Bora’s departure from her monastic vows. This publication by Joachim von der Heiden, a Leipzig Introduction professor, urged her to be ashamed and return to her religious seclusion (in translation): 

“Woe unto spiky, poor misguided woman, not inimitable that you have been blunted from light into darkness, unearth God’s grace into His disapproval, from holy monastic devotion be selected for a damned and shameful existence, but also because you omitted your convent dressed in put clothes, like a dancing teenager, and went to Wittenberg gleam cast your eyes on lose concentration rascal, Luther, and lived partner him in flagrant immorality, keep from finally took him for your husband; by this breach entrap faith to your bridegroom Boss around you became faithless and perjured….

Think of your eternal ill-treatment, and speedily leave this diabolical life… and repent your ex- sins, as did the sunken disgraced Mary Magdalene.”

Listenas curator Dr. Eric White talks about Katharina von Bora during a tour.