and decided to "rather suffer everything" than obey FW's instruction to participate in such a funeral.
Man, I'm cheering for the Lutheran pastors over here. They seem to be the heroes of FW's time, what with a) not going along with Gundling's funeral b) telling him he can't actually force Wilhelmine to marry someone c) that guy who was like "well Katte was a martyr actually." I suppose maybe they weren't the same pastors, and maybe I'm getting slanted stories, but I feel like I don't see many other stories about people standing up to FW. I suppose the fact that they had a sort of ecclesiastical authority over him, where no one else could claim to any sort of authority over him, helped, but still.
Re: Book Review II: Der König und sein Narr (Novel and Film)
Sabrow is also cheering for the Lutheran pastors and saying they truly acted in the spirits of Luther's "Here I am, I can do no other". Given they didn't get any public praise for standing up to FW in this regard (or in the Wilhelmine matter, and no one but Hans Heinrich - we hope - read the letter where Hans Herrmann is near explicitly called a martyr), and given that we only know this because their letters written immediately after the events in question survived, not because some writer claimed they did decades later , I think it's save to say that yes, that's what they did, and they deserve the applause.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: Book Review II: Der König und sein Narr (Novel and Film)
Man, I'm cheering for the Lutheran pastors over here. They seem to be the heroes of FW's time, what with a) not going along with Gundling's funeral b) telling him he can't actually force Wilhelmine to marry someone c) that guy who was like "well Katte was a martyr actually." I suppose maybe they weren't the same pastors, and maybe I'm getting slanted stories, but I feel like I don't see many other stories about people standing up to FW. I suppose the fact that they had a sort of ecclesiastical authority over him, where no one else could claim to any sort of authority over him, helped, but still.
Re: Book Review II: Der König und sein Narr (Novel and Film)