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something. Right now, she had papers to grade. Stacks and stacks of papers to grade. Oodles and gobs
and mountains of papers to grade. One of the few things that could be said for the first year of teaching
was that it sure took your mind off your other troubles.
Jena, October, 1634
Johann Gerhard, dean of the faculty of theology at the university of Jena, looked at his dinner party.
Overall, he was satisfied. Basically, the handling of the case of Roland Worley's up-time marriage in the
briefs submitted by expert advisers from both law and theology schools throughout much of Lutheran
Germany indicated that a spouse left behind in such a way should be considered deceased. Without
requiring an extended waiting period or an individual decree in each case. The Saxe-Weimar consistorial
court had ruled accordingly this morning, concurring with that of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
This meant that in addition to the now basically Philippist consistory in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, they
had a ruling from the basically Flacian consistory in Saxe-Weimar. Flacian Lutherans basically thought
that Philippists were suspiciously lax with tendencies toward crypto-Calvinism. Philippist Lutherans
frequently thought that Flacians tended to be uptight, overly orthodox, ultrarigid pains. They rarely agreed
on any point of doctrine.
Gerhard was orthodox himself, of course. Though suspected of pietist sentimentalism by even stricter
Flacians. All of the Jena faculty was Flacian.
That the two consistories agreed on the marriage issue was a relief, since the alternative would have
been the need for the party now in the seventeenth century to apply for divorce on the grounds of
abandonment and that would have proven impossible. Abandonment, as everyone knew, had to be
willful. It would be impossible to interpret the parting of spouses caused by the Ring of Fire as having
been deliberate on the part of either one. That would have been a dilemma. A serious dilemma when it
came to finding a wife for Gary Lambert. Now . . . he had representatives of both contending schools of
Lutheran thought at the same dinner party. Which might possibly turn out to be touchy.
Gerhard's wife Maria smiled at him from across the room. She was talking with Beulah McDonald.
Since her father had been a well known physician in Coburg, the two had common interests. Standing
with them were Catharina Barthin, the wife of Friedrich Hortleder, and her daughter. The Hortleders had
come from Weimar specifically to attend this dinner.
Ludwig Kastenmayer was talking to Hortleder himself, introducing Gary Lambert.
Hortleder as a historian was delighted to be meeting another up-timer.
Hortleder as a lawyer was as happy as Gerhard to have one more issue surrounding the up-timers pretty
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well settled. A settlement to which his own brief had contributed as much as Kastenmayer's tact.
Hortleder as a bureaucrat, the former tutor of the young dukes of Saxe-Weimar and the chancellor of
the duchy at the time the Ring of Fire occurred, always felt a need to be very cautious around the
up-timers. It had been, after all, on his watch that Grantville "slid" Saxe-Weimar out of the grasp of its
rightful rulers while they were away fighting on behalf of the emperor Gustavus Adolphus. Logically, since
the dukes appeared to bear the up-timers no major grudge, they should bear Hortleder no major grudge,
either. But human beings were not always logical, so Hortleder remained careful, even though the nature
of his position as chancellor, which he still held, required him to work closely with the up-timers.
Hortleder had been a bit startled when he first discovered that Herr Michael Stearns was, if anything, a
Calvinist, while Herr Edward Piazza was a Catholic. But he had borne up well, under the circumstances.
He had also provided them with the loan of many young, well-trained administrators and bureaucrats a
commodity of which they were acutely in need.
When humans were being logical, Gerhard thought, Hortleder was the kind of man who logically ought
to appeal to the up-timers. Not a nobleman. Not even close. He came from very modest circumstances. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]