Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly
emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450
and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated
within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic,
political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic
religious reforms in the Catholic confession and the introduction
of multiple Protestant denominations; the advent of the printing
press; European encounters and exchange with the Americas, North
Africa, and southwestern and eastern Asia; the growth of state
bureaucracies; and a resurgence of ecclesiastical authority in
private life. These developments, together with social, religious,
and cultural attitudes, including the constructed norms of
masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, impinged upon the
possibility of marrying. The nine scholars in this volume aim to
provide a comprehensive picture of current research on the cultural
history of marriage for the years between 1450 and 1650 by
identifying both the ideal templates for nuptial unions in
prescriptive writings and artistic representation and actual
practices in the spheres of courtship and marriage rites, sexual
relationships, the formation of family networks, marital
dissolution, and the overriding choices of individuals over the
structural and cultural constraints of the time. A Cultural History
of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age presents an
overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual;
Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family
Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of
Marriage.
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