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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
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).
