Honor your fathers: The emergence of a patriarchal ideology in early modern Germany.

How did the domestic, ecclesiological and political treatises of the early modern era come to be dominated by the language of paternal authority? Hitherto scholars have attributed this phenomenon to Protestantism, characterized by married clerics dependent on the protection of governing powers. That...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bast, Robert James.
Other Authors: Oberman, Heiko A.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1993
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186373