{"id":6613,"date":"2025-12-05T09:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evir.uni-muenster.blog\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:41:41","slug":"mixed-denomination-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evir.uni-muenster.blog\/en\/mixed-denomination-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicts over mixed-denomination marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A glimpse into research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their fellowship at the K\u00e4te Hamburger Kolleg, the researchers work on a project of their own choice related to the Kolleg’s topic. Sometimes a single source is at the centre of these projects, sometimes there are hundreds, and it is not always classical historical source material. That is why we have asked our fellows to present a source that is central to their research project, that is particularly meaningful or that simply reads like a thriller – their absolute favourite source, so to speak.

We publish these continuously on the weekends during Advent, allowing us to look back on the year once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cecilia Cristellon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project: Negotiating Confession in Early Modern Europe: Roman Congregations, Mixed Marriages, and Administering Religious Plurality in an Entangled World (16th\u201318th Centuries)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/strong> De matrimoniis mixtis inter catholicos et protestantes, Quinque Ecclesiis 1842, vol. 2, S. 27, Nr. 37<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De matrimoniis mixtis inter catholicos et protestantes<\/em>,Quinque Ecclesiis 1842, vol. 2, p. 27, no. 37 \u2013 this is a document from the collection of sources of the assistant to the papal throne, Agost\u00f3n Roskov\u00e1ny, dealing with a central issue in denominationally mixed marriages: namely, the religious education of the children. Churches made dispensations for mixed marriages conditional on the children being brought up in their own denomination. This led to conflicts of conscience that could challenge paternal and sovereign authority. A purely dogmatic solution was impossible, so couples had to negotiate and draw up contracts, and secular authorities had to intervene. Such marriages thus contributed to an increasing diversity of norms, but also prompted the secular authorities to create a normative unity whose main aim was public order. This source concerns a decision made by Elector Georg Ludwig of Brunswick-L\u00fcneburg (1713). It determined that, if the father was Protestant, then sons from mixed marriages would be raised in the Protestant-Lutheran faith if no prenuptial agreements to the contrary had been made; and that, if the father was Catholic and the mother was Protestant, then sons would be raised in the Catholic faith and daughters in the Lutheran. Children who were brought up Catholic and wanted to convert to Protestantism on reaching the \u2018age of reason\u2019 (12 for girls, 14 for boys) could not be prevented from doing so. Illegitimate children were always to be baptised Protestant, even if the mother was Catholic. The ruling reflects the attempt to promote both paternal authority and the Elector\u2019s religion in his territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Cecilia Cristellon<\/a> is a historian whose research focuses on ecclesiastical courts, book censorship and interdenominational relations, among other topics. She was a fellow at the K\u00e4te Hamburger Kolleg from October 2024 to September 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cristellon, Cecilia, Conflicts over mixed-denomination marriages. A glimpse into research, EViR Blog, 05.12.2025, https:\/\/www.evir.uni-muenster.blog\/en\/mixed-denomination-marriages\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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