Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany

by Amy Leonard

Book Overview

During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther instituted new ideologies addressing gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life that threatened Catholic monasticism. Yet many living in cloistered religious communities, particularly women, refused to accept these new terms and were successful in their opposition to the new Protestant culture.

Focusing primarily on a group of Dominican nuns in Strasbourg, Germany, Amy Leonard's Nails...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226472574
• ISBN13: 9780226472577
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"