![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Luther had actually had his eye on another nun, who someone else proposed to first. At one point, she refused a candidate, saying she’d rather marry Luther (or another man). ![]() Luther had actually tried to match her up with other men. She had no dowry and no means of support, having fled the cloister where her father had placed her. The truth was, Katharina was beyond the usual age for marriage, often in one’s early teens. Some predicted that any offspring would be monstrosities. Friends thought the wife would distract from the important work of church reform. A 42 year old former monk and leader of the Reformation marries a 26 year old nun who fled the cloister inspired by Reformation ideals. Summary: An account of the “most unlikely to succeed” scandalous marriage of Katharina Von Bora and Martin Luther, a runaway nun and former monk who marry out of necessity and principle, and grow into love.īy today’s standards, as well as those of their time, this was a marriage that didn’t hold much promise. Katharina & Martin Luther, Michelle DeRusha. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Harrow ninth![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are just these tiny little drips of information that get sent to the reader a little bit at a time. One of the things that’s really impressive to me is how carefully it’s delivered. I want to start by looking at this incredibly complex mythology you’ve created. You can check out our full conversation in the video above, or read highlights in the transcript below, lightly edited for length and clarity.Īnd if you’d like to keep the fun going, sign up for the Vox Book Club newsletter and stay tuned for the discussion of our February book, Raven Leilani’s Luster. We asked Muir to explain herself, and she obliged. It’s a rich and vibrant story about love and sin and redemption, laced through with allusions to everything from Peter’s denial of Christ to the none pizza with left beef meme. The Locked Tomb trilogy’s logline is that it is about lesbian necromancers in space, but it’s also so much more than that. And at the end of January, we met up with Muir on Zoom to talk them through. So the Vox Book Club spent December and January with two of the most fun books I’ve read in a long time: the first two volumes of Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb trilogy, Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Night Games by Anna Krien![]() ![]() Krien’s interrogation of her own relationship to the events she is recording, and the validity of her role as reporter and commentator, is a part of this book’s achievement in opening up questions and judgements about the case rather than closing them down. Anna Krien follows the arguments and assumptions that are made as the trial unfolds, her discussion spreading out in circles of argument and questioning to examine the wider contexts of this story. The 2014 Stella Prize judges said of Night Games:įollowing in the footsteps of Truman Capote, Janet Malcolm and, closer to home, Helen Garner, Anna Krien explores the facts, the claims and the ramifications surrounding a court case in which a Melbourne footballer was tried for the rape of a young woman. It won the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. On the seventh day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me…Īnna Krien’s Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport!īoth a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, Anna Krien’s Night Games is a breakthrough book by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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