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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 647-672 |
| Journal | Journal of Social History |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Converted relationships: Re-negotiating family status after religious conversion in the Nassau dynasty. / Broomhall, Susan; Van Gent, Jacqueline.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Converted relationships: Re-negotiating family status after religious conversion in the Nassau dynasty
AU - Broomhall, Susan
AU - Van Gent, Jacqueline
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This essay examines four case studies from the Nassau dynasty in the early modern period to explore strategies that converts used to negotiate understanding from their family members for their religious choices and to re-define their relationships and status as members of the dynasty. It studies the strategies and words used by male and female members of the dynasty, Flandrine of Nassau (1579-1640), Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Hadamar (1590-1653), Johann VIII of Nassau-Siegen (1583-1638), and Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1609-1722), each of whom had converted to Catholicism. The essay argues that these conversions provoked different strategies of dynastic and familial management, each of which responded to the gender of the converts, their positions in the hierarchy, and the potential consequences of their conversions for the House of Nassau and its political alliances. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
AB - This essay examines four case studies from the Nassau dynasty in the early modern period to explore strategies that converts used to negotiate understanding from their family members for their religious choices and to re-define their relationships and status as members of the dynasty. It studies the strategies and words used by male and female members of the dynasty, Flandrine of Nassau (1579-1640), Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Hadamar (1590-1653), Johann VIII of Nassau-Siegen (1583-1638), and Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1609-1722), each of whom had converted to Catholicism. The essay argues that these conversions provoked different strategies of dynastic and familial management, each of which responded to the gender of the converts, their positions in the hierarchy, and the potential consequences of their conversions for the House of Nassau and its political alliances. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
U2 - 10.1093/jsh/sht111
DO - 10.1093/jsh/sht111
M3 - Article
VL - 47
SP - 647
EP - 672
JO - Journal of Social History
JF - Journal of Social History
SN - 0022-4529
IS - 3
ER -