Contents

Introduction: Katharina von Bora for All Seasons

1. “Jesus Cage”: Incarceration in a Cloister

2. “Here I Stand”: Religious Revolution in Germany

3. “A Wagon Load of Vestal Virgins”: Escaping the Convent

4. “A Bitter Living”: Daily Life in Old Wittenberg

5. “Pigtails on the Pillow”: Marriage to Martin Luther

6. “Neither Wood nor Stone”: A Reformation Husband

7. “From Katie, a Little Heathen”: Motherhood at the Manse

8. “Morning Star of Wittenberg”: At Work before Dawn

9. “Hew an Obedient Wife out of Stone”: Pushing Gender Boundaries

10. “Stop Worrying, Let God Worry”: Worrywart of Wittenberg

11. “Fifty Gulden” Bible Reading: Undervalued Spirituality

12. “No Words Can Express My Heartbreak”: Widowhood and Final Years

Brand Bora: Concluding Thoughts on Katharina

Notes

Index