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Dissertation
Regulating Marriage and Socio-Religious Boundaries: the Reformation and Acts of Nonconformity in Dutch-Speaking Migrant Communities, 1570-1600
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005258
Abstract
Historians have examined the Reformations' numerous effects on sixteenth-century beliefs andpractices concerning marriage, the family, and sex. While some historians have extolled Protestant reformers for championing marriage as an idealized state and introducing divorce, more recent historical research has shown how these reforms either furthered patriarchal regimes or did little to change existing customary practices and beliefs. This dissertation explores how the Reformation reshaped European marriage practices apart from questions concerning the success and failures of reforms in specific states and cities. In analyzing cases from the Dutch-speaking Reformed diaspora, this dissertation asserts that the Reformation’s primary influence on sixteenth-century marriage practices lay not in the application of any new theology but in how churches and individuals adapted to the fracturing of the religious geography of Europe. Sixteenth-century individuals crossed into confessionally different jurisdictions to form marriages with individuals to whom their own religious community and family objected to the union.
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- Title
- Regulating Marriage and Socio-Religious Boundaries
- Creators
- Daniel Herbert Fogt
- Contributors
- Jesse Spohnholz (Advisor)Sue Peabody (Committee Member)Ashley Wright (Committee Member)Sean Quinlan (Committee Member)Todd Butler (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- History, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 355
- Identifiers
- 99901019835701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation