When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe: 1 (Studies in Cultural History) - Softcover

Ozment, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674951212 ISBN 13: 9780674951211

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

238p red paperback, large format, excellent condition, library bookplate, never used

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

Every few years scholarly books on the Reformation are written in this country that challenge established theories, present fresh insights, and stimulate our research. In a sense they are milestones in the field of Reformation studies. I chink that Steven Ozment's well-researched book will also be recognized as such a work. Ozment's skillful use of hitherto-neglected material and his vivid picture of marriage and family in Protestant Germany will give a new direction to sixteenth-century social history. American Historical Review Our common understanding of the early modern family, and particularly its relationship to the Reformation, will have to take cognizance of Ozment's work. Journal of Social History As an account of literate culture's attitudes to marriage and parenthood, it is gripping and challenging. Journal of Modern History This is a splendid book on a "hot" topic...an original if controversial argument...Skillfully argued and artfully documented...Fascinating fresh evidence. -- Robert Kingdon University of Wisconsin

Reseña del editor:

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 Aries to Lawrence Stone, Ozment finds the fathers of early modern Europe sympathetic and even admirable. They were not domineering or loveless men, nor were their homes the training ground for passive citizenry in an age of political absolutism. From prenatal care to graveside grief, they expressed deep love for their wives and children. Rather than a place where women and children were bullied by male chauvinists, the Protestant home was the center of a domestic reform movement against Renaissance antifeminism and was an attempt to resolve the crises of family life. Demanding proper marriages for all women, Martin Luther and his followers suppressed convents and cloisters as the chief institutions of womankind's sexual repression, cultural deprivation, and male clerical domination. Consent, companionship, and mutual respect became the watchwords of marriage. And because they did, genuine divorce and remarriage became possible among Christians for the first time. This graceful book restores humanity to the Reformation family and to family history.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0674951212
• ISBN 13: 9780674951211
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248