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  1. May 12, 2020 · Marriage was the only acceptable place for sex in the medieval period, and as a result Christians were allowed to marry from puberty onwards, generally seen at the time as age 12 for women and 14 for men. Parental consent was not required. When this law finally changed in England in the 18th century, the old rules still applied in Scotland ...

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  2. Feb 10, 2022 · According to the medieval church, marriage was an inherently virtuous sacrament that was a sign of God’s love and grace, with marital sex being the ultimate symbol of human union with the divine. The church communicated its ideas about marital sanctity with its laypeople. However, how much they were followed is unclear.

    • What was marriage like in the 14th century?1
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  4. Dec 24, 2020 · The next incarnation of marriage began in the 18th century with the rise in Europe of democratic political institutions, which argued that everyone was entitled to personal freedom—and by ...

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  5. Nov 13, 2019 · According to an article published earlier this month in the journal Science, Western Europe developed greater individualism, lower conformity and increased trust of strangers which can be traced in part to the Medieval Western Church’s policies. These policies relate to marriage, and who could be allowed to marry whom in medieval Europe.

  6. Michael, M. Sheehan “The Formation and Stability of Marriage in Fourteenth-Century England: Evidence of an Ely Register ”, Mediaeval Studies, 33 (1971) 228–63, in id., Marriage, Family, and Law, 38–76 (page references are to the latter)

  7. Chapter 1. What Love Is. Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love’s precepts in the other’s embrace. Chapter 3.

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