Mixed matches : transgressive unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment / edited by David Luebke and Mary Lindemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luebke, David Martin, 1960- editor.

Lindemann, Mary, editor.

Series:

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.)

Spektrum : Publications of the German Studies Association

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Germany--History.

Marriage.

Germany--History--1517-1871.

Germany.

Germany--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Introduction - Transgressive Unions; Chapter 1 - ""It Is Not Forbidden that a Man Have More Than One Wife"": Luther's Pastoral Advice on Bigamy and Marriage; Chapter 2 - Celibacy-Marriage-Unmarriage: The Controversy over Celibacy and Clerical Marriage in the Early Reformation; Chapter 3 - ""Nothing More than Common Whores and Knaves"": Married Nuns and Monks in the Early German Reformation; Chapter 4 - Transgressive Unions and Concepts of Honor in Early Modern Defamation Lawsuits; Chapter 5 - Negotiating Rank in Early Modern Marital Mismatches

Chapter 6 - Between Conscience and Coercion: Mixed Marriages, Church, Secular Authority, and FamilyChapter 7 - The Rhetoric of Difference: The Marriage Negotiations between Queen Christina of Sweden and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg; Chapter 8 - Mixed Matches and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: The Hanoverian Succession and the Protestant Dynasties of Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century; Chapter 9 - Transethnic Unions in Early Modern German Travel Literature; Chapter 10 - The Meaning of Love: Emotion and Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Incest Discourses

Chapter 11 - Aufklärung, Literature, and Fatherly Love: An Eighteenth-Century Case of IncestAfterword - Shifting Boundaries and Boundary Shifters: Transgressive Unions and the History of Marriage in Early Modern Germany; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782384106

1782384103

OCLC:

884645893