Noble Strategies : : Marriage and Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle / / Judith J. Hurwich.

• VerfasserIn: Hurwich, Judith J.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 75
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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 nonmarital 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Zimmern Chronicle and the Zimmern Family -- Part I. Family Strategy -- Chapter 2. Inheritance and Dowry -- Chapter 3. Age at Marriage and Proportions Marrying -- Chapter 4. Intermarriage and Rank of Spouses -- Part II. Marriage -- Chapter 5. Choice of Marriage Partners -- Chapter 6. Marriage Negotiations -- Chapter 7. Marital Happiness and Marital Breakdown -- Part III. Sexuality -- Chapter 8. Sexuality Laws, Attitudes, and the Sexual Honor Code -- Chapter 9. Concubines -- Chapter 10. Bastards -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Family Strategies and Pragmatic Morality -- Appendix: Genealogy of the Zimmern Family -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index