Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Broomhall, Susan
• Van Gent, Jacqueline

Titel

Converted Relationships: Re-negotiating Family Status after Religious Conversion in the Nassau Dynasty

Ist Teil von

• Journal of social history, 2014-03, Vol.47 (3), p.647-672

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 Ludwig of Nassau-Hadamar (1590-1653), Johann VIII of Nassau-Siegen (1583-1638), and Louise Hollanàne of the Pahtinate (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.