Luther and Katharina

Name: Luther and Katharina
Rating: 4.5 (690 reviews)

by Jody Hedlund

First published 2015

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4.5(690)

A Christy Award-winning novel chronicling the forbidden romance between Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora, set against the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. She was a nun of noble birth. He was a heretic, a reformer, and an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 16th century, nun Katharina von Bora’s fate fell no further than the Abbey. Until she read the writings of Martin Luther. His sweeping Catholic church reformation—condemning a cloistered life and promoting the goodness of marriage—awakened her desire for everything she’d been forbidden. Including Martin Luther himself.

The novel follows Martin Luther and former nun Katharina von Bora through the upheaval of the early Reformation, including clerical marriage, political danger and the German Peasants’ War. It treats their household partnership as part of the Reformation’s social transformation while distinguishing documented events from imagined private conversations.