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Most photographs reproduce acceptably on positive microfilm or microfiche but lack the clarity on xerographic copies made from the microfilm. For an additional charge, 35mm slides of 6”x 9” black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations that cannot be reproduced satisfactorily by xerography. Order Number 8726622 Images of marriage and family life in Nordlingen: Moral preaching and devotional literature, 1589-1712 Dugan, Eileen Theresa, Ph.D. The Ohio Stat? University, 1987 Copyright ©1988 by Dugan, Eileen Theresa. All rights reserved. UMI 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 IMAGES OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN NttRDLINGEN MORAL PREACHING AND DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE, 1589-1712 DISSERTATION Presented In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Eileen T. Dugan, B. A., M. A. The Ohio State University 1987 Dissertation Committee Approved by James M. Kittelson Joseph H. Lynch Adviser John C. Rule Department of History ©1988 EILEEN THERESA DUGAN All Rights Reserved ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank my adviser, Prof. James M. Kittelson, for his guidance and support throughout my graduate studies. Thanks also to the members of my dissertation committee. Profs. Joseph H. Lynch and John C. Rule, for their helpful comments and suggestions. A fellowship to the Twentieth Summer Institute of the Society for Reforma tion Research in the summer of 1983 proved invaluable for the development of essential paleographical skills. This project was made possible by a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for study in Germany. The indefatigable patience and guid ance of Prof. Hans-Christoph Rublack of the Universit&t TUbingen, who first pointed me toward NBrdlingen, is sin cerely appreciated. I wish to thank the directors and staffs of the archives and libraries I visited in the course of my research: Hans-Dietmar Voges of the Stadt- archiv NBrdlingen, the staff of the StadtbUcherei NBrdlingen, of the Stadt- und Staatsbibliothek Augsburg, and of the Baden-WUrttembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Finally, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to those who have provided moral support throughout this project: to the Familie SchwBd of NBrdlingen, to Douglas and Cynthia Bisson of Belmont College, to John Liessmann Vantine of the UniversitUt TUbingen, and to my mother, Constance Dugan, and my father, the late George Dugan. ii VITA Hay 25, 1958 .................... Born, Manhasset, New York 1979 ........................... B. A. , Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 1 9 8 1 ........................... M.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1983-1986 ..................... Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and study, UniversitUt TUbingen, TUbingen, West Germany FIELDS OF STUDY Major field: Renaissance and Reformation History Studies in: Ancient Rome (Timothy E. Gregory) Medieval Europe (Joseph H. Lynch) Tudor and Stuart England (Clayton R. Roberts) ill TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................ ii VITA ..................................................... iii CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ................................... 1 II. A PATERNAL CITY .................................. 18 Introduction ............................. 18 The Funeral Sermon from laudatio funebris to Guide to Christian L i f e .......... 27 The NBrdlingen Funeral Sermons and Their Subjects: An Overview ............... 36 III. FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NBRDLINGEN FUNERAL SERMONS ................................ 42 IV. LUTHERAN HAUSVXTERLITERATURE FROM THE SIXTEENTH THROUGH EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES .... 81 V. THE SCHOOL OF VIRTUE: GEORG ALBRECHT'S DER.HAUSSIAND .................................. 95 The Sacred Nature of Marriage .......... 95 The Beginnings of a Christian Marriage: Parental Consent and Marital Love . .110 Conception and B i r t h ......................123 Husbands and Wives, Parents and C h i l d r e n ............................ 138 The Crosses of L i f e ......................158 VI. CONCLUSION: "PATRIARCHAL MODERNITY"? ..........169 NOTES ...................................... 185 APPENDIX: THE NBRDLINGEN FUNERAL SERMONS: SUBJECTS LIST ........................ 252 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................. 261 iv CHAPTER I Introduction "Lutheranism and family life" is a vast subject that has engaged the efforts of an array of writers for well over a century. By mid-19th century German jurists were tracing the influences of Lutheran thought on the devel opment of modern marriage law, while literary scholars hailed the Protestant movement as the source of more en lightened attitudes toward marriage, women, and the family. More recently, theologians have explained the new outlook on familial relationships as a consequence of Luther's doctrine of the two kingdoms; local ministers continue to draw from early Lutheran teachings guidance for 1 the Christian home today. Indeed, there is hardly a modern study of Christianity and domestic life that does not consider Luther and the advent of Lutheranism to be a major, positive turning point in the history of the 2 family. A number of fine works have resulted from this enduring interest. Hartwig Dieterich's Das_prgtestantische_Eherecht (1970) replaced Rudolf Sohm's 1875 Das_Recht_der_Ehe- §2biie§§yD9 as the authoritative study of Lutheran marriage 1 law; in the 1950s Olavl LMhteenmfiki presented the first clear synthesis of Luther's ethics of marriage; and Ivar Asheim examined the impact of the new theology upon 3 sixteenth-century pedagogical notions. The studies produced by this school are impressive intheir scope and depth, and even more so when one remem bers that they are based not upon one discrete, seminal treatise from Luther's pen, but rather upon the Reformer's scattered, sometimes vague, often off-the-cuff, and all- too-frequently contradictory writings and remarks concern- 4 ing marriage, women, and parenthood. Nevertheless, the social historian, while appreciating the formidable schol arship behind these works, might not be thoroughly satis fied with their authors' treatment of the development of the family. Granted that a transformation in the concept of marriage and the family was underway in sixteenth-cen tury Lutheran Germany, but what was the reality of the situation? Moreover, can one explain this transformation solely in terms of religion? Or should one turn rather to account current social and economic conditions? The past 25 years have in fact featured growing inter est in the history of the family from a more socioeconomic viewpoint. Often inspired by the women's movement and late twentieth century anxiety over the demise of the family as 5 an institution, historians, demographers, sociologists, economists, and psychohistorians have turned to the past in an effort to discover those circumstances and attitudes which contributed to the "rise of the modern family” in the first place. As one representative of this movement wrote, "their hope is to make possible sounder judgments of present-day problems from knowledge of the functions of 6 familial connections in the past." The work most responsible for fuelling interest in this area of study is Philippe Aries' Centuries_of_Childhgodi_A Sgcial_Histgry_gf_Family_Life. Since its publication in 1960 this book has become a standard for the history of the family and has provided a starting-point for the researches of European and American scholars alike, including Jean- 7 Louis Flandrin, Michael Mitterauer, and Lawrence Stone. Almost concurrently with the appearance of Aries' classic, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, spearheaded by Peter Laslett, began its demographic surveys of household structure and size, mar riage rates, childbearing patterns, and illegitimacy rates 8 in early modern and modern England. Other recent trends in family history include the household economics school, exemplified by the studies of peasant economies and inheri tance of Lutz Berkner and Jack Goody, and the more dubious 9 psychohistorical approach. Anyone who hazards to make a contribution to the his tory of the family must ultimately reckon with the leading forces in the field. When one takes the "sentiments 4 approach", investigating familial relationships from liter ary and artistic sources, then one must deal with Philippe Aries, Edvard Shorter, and Lawrence Stone. As noted above, Centuries_gf.Childhood was a pioneer in the area of family history, and today scholars still debate the history of childhood in terms of Aries'

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