Body and Gender in Martin Luther's Anthropology (1520-1530) : Dissertationsschrift (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformatio) （2024. XIII, 287 S. 235 mm）

Mikkola, Sini

MOHR SIEBECK（2024発売）

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Sini Mikkola untersucht Martin Luthers Anthropologie während der 1520er Jahre aus der Perspektive von Leiblichkeit, genderspezifischer Daseinsform, Sexualität und Macht. Luthers Deutung von Weiblichkeit, Männlichkeit und dem Gendersystem werden in Anbetracht sowohl seiner theoretischen als auch seiner praktischen Sichtweisen erforscht.

Contents

I Introduction
1. The aim and context of the study - 2. Gender, gender system, and power - 3. Sources - 4. A note on translations

II Life in the Flesh-A Premise for All Human Beings
1. Diversity of Luther's body-talk - 2. Luther's body politics: Bodily needs and the ideal of social control

III Female Body and Femininity
1. Lived bodiliness: Created for subordination - 2. Mission larger than life: Motherhood - 3. Luther in favor of elite women and female activists

IV Male Body and Masculinity
1. Man as the paragon of the human race - 2. Unstable male bodies: Redefining ideals through depictions of male sexuality

V Bodiliness and the Reconstruction of Gender in Luther's Marriage
1. Manhood in transition: The beginning of the Luther marriage - 2. From otherness to dominance: Katharina von Bora - 3. Luther the father, von Bora the bearer

VI Because of or Despite the Gendered Body? Rules and Exceptions Among Luther's Contemporaries
1. Little wife and counseling husband: Elisabeth and Johann Agricola - 2. "The Scripture becomes fulfilled in our body": Katharina and Justus Jonas - 3. Gender system endangered: Ursula and Stephan Roth

VII The Gender System Rooted In and Beyond the Body: Conclusions