HIST 111 Lecture Notes - Courtly Love, Barrel Vault, Flying Buttress
17 Mar 2014
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Marriage and love in the high middle ages. Polygyny and concubines were annulled after pressure on the church. Charlemagne at 4 wives at different times, monogamy becomes important in carolingian period. Marriage is an indissoluble bond (no divorce allowed: was a bonus for women as their status became more secure. Valid marriage requires: free and mutual consent of the couple. Doesn"t need families" consent, witnesses or priests: sex- consummation (completes) the marriage. If can reasonably prove that spouse never had sex then marriage is invalid can"t marry anyone within 7th degree of kinship (can"t share ancestor in last 7 generations) Especially btwn royals and nobles as married w/in elite social group. Did reduced likelihood of second marriages led to fewer men getting opportunity to marry in the first place. Younger sons don"t have economic or political resources to marry clerical celibacy forbids many men to marry (priests) War primarily fought by young men so many killed off.
