David M. (Hrsg.) Luebke

Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

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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 simpl… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lindemann, Mary (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-524-2
EAN: 9781785335242
Produktnummer: 21429516
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 252 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 376 g
Gewicht: 376

Über den Autor

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).