Luebke / Lindemann Mixed Matches

Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-410-6
Verlag: Berghahn
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The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther's redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers' attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luebke, David M.

Lindemann, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Transgressive Unions

David M. Luebke

Chapter 1. 'It is not forbidden that a man may have more than one wife': Luther's Pastoral Advice on Bigamy and Marriage

David Whitford

Chapter 2. Celibacy-Marriage-Un-Marriage: The Controversy over Celibacy and the Marriage of Priests in the Early Reformation

Wolfang Breul

Chapter 3. 'Nothing More than Common Whores and Knaves': Married Nums and Monks in the Early German Reformation

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

Chapter 4. Transgressive Unions and Concepts of Honor in Early Modern Defamation Lawsuits

Ralf-Peter Fuchs

Chapter 5. Negotiating Rank in Early Modern Marital Mismatches

Michael Sikora

Chapter 6. Between Conscience and Coercion: Confessionally Mixed Marriages Between Church, State, and Family

Dagmar Freist

Chapter 7. The Rhetoric of Difference: The Marriage Negotiations Between Queen Christina of Sweden and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg

Daniel Riches

Chapter 8. Mixed Matches and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: The Hannoverian Succession and the Protestant Dynasties of Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century

Alexander Schunka

Chapter 9. Trans-Ethnic Unions in Early Modern German Travel Literature

Antje Flüchter

Chapter 10. The Meaning of Love: Emotion and Kinship in Early Modern Incest Discourses

Claudia Jarzebowski

Chapter 11. Aufklärung, Literature, and Fatherly Love: An Eighteenth-Century Case of Incest

Mary Lindemann

Afterword: Shifting Boundaries and Boundary Shifters: Transgressive Unions and the History of Marriage in Early Modern Germany

Joel F. Harrington

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luebke, David M.
David M. Luebke is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He is author of His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 (1997), editor of The Counter-Reformation (1999), and co-editor of Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012). He is completing a book on multiconfessional cohabitation in northwestern Germany during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tentatively titled Hometown Religion: Conflict and Consensus among the Christian Religions of Germany, 1553-1650.

Lindemann, Mary
Mary Lindemann is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She is the author of four books: Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (2006); Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (1999; 2nd ed., 2010); Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1996); and Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 (1990). She has recently completed a book-length manuscript entitled The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790.