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3 days ago · Married Life in the Middle Ages offers a refreshing approach to medieval marriage. Elisabeth van Houts focuses on the social and emotional sides of marriage rather than viewing marriage through a legal or institutional lens. Two aspects of van Houts’ book set it apart from others.
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3 days ago · Two examples of people who were formally and legally married in spite of the unequal status were Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt (pp. 73–8) and Margery Paston with Richard Calle (56–7).
Did people who married due to political reasons "pretend" to love eachother publicaly? Now obviously barely any marriage in medieval times from higher ranking nobles happened out of love. However, as there was still the wedding ceremony involved, did bride & groom usualy pretend to love eachother during the ceremony?
2 days ago · The act did not apply to Scotland, however, and for many years thereafter couples went north across the border to thwart the ban. On the European continent, common-law marriages were frequent in the Middle Ages,but their legality was abolished in the Roman Catholic countries by the Council of Trent (1545–1563), which required that marriages ...
May 20, 2024 · Over time, marriage has taken several forms, and history of marriage has evolved. Sweeping trends and shifts in the view and understanding of marriage over the years, such as polygamy to monogamy and same-sex to interracial marriages, have occurred over time.
May 17, 2024 · Amy Gorel. Twenty years ago, same-sex couples walked into city and town halls, synagogues and banquet halls across Massachusetts. They were there to get married. On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts...
6 days ago · Physicians in the Islamic world during the medieval period documented the use of abortifacients, commenting on their effectiveness and prevalence. Colonial Americans were advised to use careful measurements in a recipe by Benjamin Franklin for an abortifacient.
