In this article, the historical and social context of Petrus Dathenus’s Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage at the end of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century in the province of Holland is examined, in order to grasp the meaning of this Marriage Form of the Dutch Reformed Church. In order to do so, the Dutch Classical Reformed Form is related to information of primary and secondary sources about matrimony. A discussion of the marriage banns, parental consent, engagement, the wedding location, the views on marriage, husbands and wives’ responsibilities, and divorce, demonstrates that examination of the historical developments and contemporary rules and manners improves our understanding of the Form. Nevertheless, being a liturgical document, the Form did not always represent the social context, but rather interacted with the social context as a normative source.

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结婚仪式的社会历史语境的形式

本文考察了 16 世纪末 17 世纪初荷兰省佩特鲁斯·达特努斯 (Petrus Dathenus) 的结婚仪式形式的历史和社会背景，以掌握这种结婚形式的意义荷兰归正会。为了做到这一点，荷兰古典改革形式与有关婚姻的主要和次要来源的信息相关。对婚姻禁令、父母同意、订婚、婚礼地点、对婚姻的看法、丈夫和妻子的责任以及离婚的讨论表明，对历史发展和当代规则和礼仪的考察提高了我们对表格的理解。然而，作为礼仪文件，表格并不总是代表社会背景，