This collection of essays explores discourses and practices surrounding a wide variety of transgressive unions in early modern Germany The text addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage The collection provides a new perspective into the shifting understandings of marriage and sexual union in the years 1500-1800
This collection of essays explores discourses and practices surrounding a wide variety of transgressive unions in early modern Germany The text addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage The collection provides a new perspective into the shifting understandings of marriage and sexual union in the years 1500-1800
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).
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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
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
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