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05/26/2011 - 05/27/2011 | Roma

Mixed Marriages in Europe:

The Politics and Practices of Religious Plurality
Between the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Historical investigation into religious pluralism and multicultural coexistence has until now paid little attention to the subject of mixed marriages. Sources show that mixed marriages are documented from the late Middle Ages as a common practice, although they were not commonplace. In Europe the processes of confessionalization and nation state formation made mixed marriage into a political issue. Different types of authorities—ecclesiastical, state, local—both competed among themselves for, and simply sought to establish, control over interconfessional and interreligious marriages—alternately clashing, negotiating, and compromising. In the early modern period, mixed marriages helped to lay the foundations for religious coexistence and tolerance and to negotiate interconfessional and interreligious boundaries both internal (between Catholic, Protestant and Reformed, and Jewish communities and regions) and external (with the Muslim world, the East, and the New World).

This international conference—the first dedicated specifically to this topic—will explore the potential of this new area of research. The papers will address the following issues: the emergence of the various systems of rules concerning mixed marriages; the institutions responsible for regulating them and the intermixing of politics and religion in this regulation; the political, social, and emotional elements that played roles in the processes of negotiating and overcoming religious and confessional boundaries; the many tensions underlying mixed marriages—conversion, gender roles, raising children; and the challenge of secularization.

Contact:
Dr. Cecilia Cristellon
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
Via Aurelia Antica, 391
I - 00165 Roma
Tel.: 0039 06 66049227

Information on participating / attending:
Simultaneous translation from German and Italian to English will be provided.

Date:

05/26/2011 09:00 - 05/27/2011 18:30

Event venue:

Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom
Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma
Via Aurelia Antica, 391
00165 Roma
Italy

Target group:

Journalists, Scientists and scholars

Email address:

cristellon@dhi-roma.it

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Law, Social studies

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

05/05/2011

Sender/author:

Dr. Sybille Wüstemann

Department:

Geschäftsstelle

Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event35293

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