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Noble strategies : marriage and sexuality in the Zimmern chronicle / Judith J. Hurwich.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 75.Publication details: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, 2006.Description: 277 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1931112592
  • 9781931112598
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.80943/46 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ626.15.S93 H87 2006
Other classification:
  • 15.70
  • 8,1
Contents:
The Zimmern chronicle and the Zimmern family -- Inheritance and dowry -- Age at marriage and proportions marrying -- Intermarriage and rank of spouses -- Choice of marriage partners -- Marriage negotiations -- Marital happiness and marital breakdown -- Sexuality : laws, attitudes, and the sexual honor code -- Concubines -- Bastards -- Family strategies and pragmatic morality.
Review: "Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried, to investigate marriage and non-marital sexuality in the southwest German nobility in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Along with a deeper look at women's roles as wives, mothers, and concubines, Noble Strategies shines a light on the intimate lives of the early modern German elite."--Jacket.
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Book: Standard Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre Main HQ515 .H87 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 21-011

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.

The Zimmern chronicle and the Zimmern family -- Inheritance and dowry -- Age at marriage and proportions marrying -- Intermarriage and rank of spouses -- Choice of marriage partners -- Marriage negotiations -- Marital happiness and marital breakdown -- Sexuality : laws, attitudes, and the sexual honor code -- Concubines -- Bastards -- Family strategies and pragmatic morality.

"Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried, to investigate marriage and non-marital sexuality in the southwest German nobility in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Along with a deeper look at women's roles as wives, mothers, and concubines, Noble Strategies shines a light on the intimate lives of the early modern German elite."--Jacket.

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