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020 $a9781610977548 (pbk.)
020 $a1610977548 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aBR350.G78$bM38 2013
100 1 $aMatheson, Peter,$eauthor.
245 10 $aArgula von Grumbach :$ba woman before her time /$cPeter Matheson.
246 34 $aArgula von Grumbach (1492-1554/7) :$ba woman before her time
264 1 $aEugene, Oregon :$bCascade Books,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axviii, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index.
520 $aAt a time when women were expected to stick to their household duties, according to Peter Matheson, Argula von Grumbach burst through every barrier. Matheson offers here a biography of the Reformation's first woman writer. Argula von Grumbach's first pamphlet in 1523 was reprinted all over Germany. Thousands of copies of her eight pamphlets appeared. Through her writing, von Grumbach defied her Bavarian princes (and her husband), denounced censorship, argued for an educated church and society, and developed her own understanding of faith and Scripture. She even intervened in the Imperial Diets at Nuremberg and Augsburg. Drawing for the first time on her correspondence, the author shows how von Grumbach paid dearly for her outspokenness but remained undaunted. Though some saw her as a she-devil and others as a harbinger of a new age, Matheson shows von Grumbach as a woman engaged in the life of the villages where she lived, as one motivated by the dreams she had for her children. In a time of sweeping change and risking everything for the light and truth she was given, Argula von Grumbach showed what the vision and determination of one person could achieve.
600 10 $aGrumbach, Argula von,$d1492-approximately 1568.
650 0 $aPamphleteers$zGermany$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aProtestant women$zGermany$xCorrespondence.
650 0 $aReformation$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen in Christianity$xHistory.