Mixed Matches

Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-524-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

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

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

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 most recently of Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (2016). He is also editor of The Counter-Reformation (1999) and co-editor of Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (2017).

Lindemann, Mary
Mary Lindemann is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. She is the author of five books, most recently The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Earlier publications include; Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 (Oxford University Press, 1990); Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996); Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (2nd edition, 2010); Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

David M. Luebke is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He is author most recently of Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (2016). He is also editor of The Counter-Reformation (1999) and co-editor of Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (2017).