Convents Confront the Reformation

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Convents Confront the Reformation

Author	: Merry E. Wiesner
File Size	: 55,7 Mb
Publisher	: Unknown
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 May 1996
ISBN	: UOM:39015041083216
Pages	: 120 pages

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Convents Confront the Reformation by Merry E. Wiesner Book PDF Summary

The first work is a letter of Katherine Rem of the Katherine convent in Augsburg to her brother Bernard - and an excerpt from his answer to her and to his daughter, who was also in the convent - printed in Augsburg in 1523. The second is a letter of Ursula of Munsterberg to her cousins Dukes George and Heinrich of Saxony, explaining why she left the convent of Mary Magdalene the Penitent in Freiberg, first printed in 1528 and later reprinted with an afterword by Luther.

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