Christianizing Domestic Relations Women and Marriage in Johann Freder's Dialogus dem Ehestand zu Ehren
Johann Freder (1510-1562) composed his Dialogue in Honor of Marriage (1545) as a rebuttal to the damaging impression of women and marriage that he thought had been left by the Sprichworter of Sebastian Franck. Although Freder's dialogue belongs to a broader class of Renaissance and Reformation...
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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1992
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-266 |
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| Summary: | Johann Freder (1510-1562) composed his Dialogue in Honor of Marriage (1545) as a rebuttal to the damaging impression of women and marriage that he thought had been left by the Sprichworter of Sebastian Franck. Although Freder's dialogue belongs to a broader class of Renaissance and Reformation treatises on marriage, it has special significance for our understanding of the Reformation. The work by Freder, both a Lutheran pastor and a skilled student of the classics, makes two important contributions to the learned mentality of the German Reformation. First, in his defense of marriage, Freder advocates a parity between women and men that stretches the limits set by better-known and more influential reformers. Second, Freder proposes a consciously Christian ethic of domestic relations which he contrasts with pagan antiquity. Freder's recognition of the equality of women and men in sin prevented him, however, from making the full realization of these ideals criteria by which the success of the Reformation should be judged. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541889 |