Spouses, Church, and State
Marriage Law in England and Protestant Germany from the Reformation until the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Samenvatting
Saskia Lettmaier explores the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred years: the shift from a unified marital order, created by a universal church and influenced by theological principles, to a non-unified marital order, created by separate states and influenced by secular principles.

