When Fathers Ruled Family Life in Reformation Europe

Name: When Fathers Ruled Family Life in Reformation Europe
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ISBN: 9780674951211

ISBN-10: 0674951212

ISBN-13: 9780674951211

Edition: 1983

Authors: Steven Ozment

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Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless. Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe? Did the home and family life matter to most people? In this wide-ranging work, Steven Ozment has gathered the answers of contemporaries to these questions. His subject is the patriarchal family in Germany and Switzerland, primarily among Protestants. But unlike modern scholars from Philippe Arics to Lawrence Stone, Ozment finds the fathers of early modern Europe sympathetic and even admirable. They were not domineering or…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.056

Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He is the author of Flesh and Spirit and The BÃ¼rgermeisterï¿½e(tm)s Daughter.




In Defense of Marriage



Celibacy and Marriage



The Liberation of Women from Cloisters



Disciplining Marriage



Husbands And Wives



The Duties of Spouses



The Wives of Hermann von Weinsberg



Divorce and Remarriage



The Bearing of Children



The Bearing of Children



The World of the Expectant Mother



The Care of the Newborn



The Trials of Infancy



A Child's Sense of Mortality



The Rearing of Children



The Measure of a Child



Discipline, Duty, and Love



The Weinsberg Men as Fathers



Sin and Mortality



The Faith of Our Fathers


Abbreviations Works Frequently Cited


Notes


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