Mixed Matches Transgressive Unions in Germany From Reformation to Enlightenment

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.

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).

Product details

• Authors: David Martin Lindemann Luebke, David M. Lindemann Luebke
• Assisted by: Lindemann Mary (Editor), David M. Luebke (Editor), Mary Lindemann (Editor), Luebke David M. (Editor), David M Luebke (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.08.2014
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781782384090
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-409-0
• Pages: 252
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
• Subjects: Sociology, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Sociology: sexual relations, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, History: Medieval/Early Modern