Price, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-5829 and Llano, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4045-2445 (2023) Professors down the aisle: academic marriage patterns in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic. Journal of Family History, 48 (2). pp. 163-178. ISSN 0363-1990
Abstract
Misogamist discourse prevailed among western European early modern scholars. This article examines whether misogamist discourse translated into behaviour in the Dutch Republic. We identify marriage trends of professors employed by the universities of Leiden and Utrecht in the seventeenth century, using quantitative and qualitative approaches. We analysed a prosopographical dataset of professors and their wives, explored here through several case studies. Against views of exceptionality, seclusion and celibacy in scholarly culture, based on self-fashioning and a handful of memorable examples, we argue that scholars overall replicated and intensified the European Marriage Pattern, and marriage strategies of the Dutch civic elite.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Dutch Republic; social history of knowledge; European Marriage Pattern; university history; seventeenth century; misogamy; self-fashioning; low Countries; Netherlands; celibacy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2023 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2023 11:29 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03631990221088298 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/03631990221088298 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196612 |