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Chapter 1

Families and Communities

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  1. Lineage, War, Family—Michel von Ehenheim (1462/63–1518)

  2. Erhard Schoen, Peasants’ Wedding (1526)

  3. The Reformer Remembers—Luther and his Father (June 5, 1530)

  4. The Reformer as Son—Luther and his Mother (May 20, 1531)

  5. The Reformer as Husband—Luther and his Wife (1529, 1534, and 1546)

  6. Martin Luther and his Wife (1529)

  7. The Reformer as Father—Luther and his Son (1530 and 1537 [?])

  8. Table Manners (c. 1540)

  9. Nobles Dancing at a Ball (2nd Half of 16th Century)

  10. Leonhard von Eck (1553)

  11. Felicitas von Freyberg (1553)

  12. Götz von Berlichingen zu Hornberg (undated)

  13. Marriage as Partnership—Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner of Nuremberg (Correspondence, 1582, 1591, and 1592)

  14. Anna Wecker, “A Wedding Speech” (1586)

  15. Beatings for Marital Bliss (2nd Half of the 17th Century)

  16. A Renaissance Song: “Gar lustig ich spazieren ging” (1603)

  17. Lovers in a Time of War (July 1625)

  18. Glückel of Hameln (18th century)

Sex, Gender, and Bodies
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