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Women and the Reformation

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, about „Women and the Reformation: Audacious and Feisty Voices from Sixteenth-Century Germany“. This guest lecture was held on June 29, 2016, at the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen, as part of the M.A. programme "Intercultural Theology. Dr. Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona, Department of German Studies. He studied at the universities of Marburg, Erlangen (Germany), Millersville, PA (USA), Oxford (Great Britain), Salamanca (Spain), Urbino (Italy), and Charlottesville, VA (USA). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has a broad range of research interests covering the history of medieval and early modern German and European literature and culture from about 800 to 1800. He has published more than 85 scholarly books, including monographs, critical editions, translations, and textbooks, more than 600 scholarly articles, and 9 volumes of his own poetry (in German). He is the editor of the journal Mediaevistik and the online journal Humanities Open Access http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities. He has also contributed to the website www.frauen-und-reformation.de, specifically: http://frauen-und-reformation.de/?s=b... which contains about 150 biographies of Reformation women from the 15th to the 20th century. In 2017 we are going to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses, the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Truly a monumental event in western history. But was it only a history initiated and carried by men? Yes, at first sight, if we are thinking of such giants next to Luther as Philipp Melanchthon, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Martin Bucer, Johannes Bugenhagen, etc. But no, if we take a second look. In fact, we can identify numerous women who emerged as part of the Protestant Reformation and made their voices heard, primary among them the Bavarian noble lady Argula von Grumbach. Her broadsheets, letters, and missives from the years 1522 and 1523 were hailed far and wide as deeply learned in Scripture and highly convincing in rhetoric. Well known is also Luther’s own wife, Katharina von Bora, without whom he would not have been able to carry out his countless daily businesses. Katharina Zell, wife of the Strassburg minister Matthew Zell, likewise became highly active in writing Protestant texts, parallel to Katharina von Münsterberg, and others. At the end of the sixteenth century, the major religious poet Anna Ovena Hoyers raised her voice, this time against Protestant clergy, which met a lot of criticism, and she was eventually even exiled, but her texts could not be repressed. The same applies to Anna Maria van Schurman, a seventeenth-century intellectual turned Labadist. This talk introduces some of the major female players from the era of the Protestant Reformation and provides a refreshing counter-balance to a traditional male perspective. Further information: • M.A. programme "Intercultural Theology": https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1090... • Project “Internationalization of the Curricula” http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/53045... • Theological Faculty of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1985... • University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg http://www.fh-hermannsburg-eng.landes... • Prof. Dr. Albrecht Classen http://aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu/ Further links to women and the Reformation: • http://www.frauen-und-reformation.de (available in German only) • http://www.museeprotestant.org/en/not... • http://www.christianity.com/church/ch...