A Good Marriage

October 16, 2013
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Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death - S1 - E2

A Good Marriage

Because it was very easy to initiate by simply exchanging words of consent, marriage in the Middle Ages was simple to get into but extremely difficult to get out of. Try as it might to impose its order on the matrimonial free-for-all, the Church found it no easy matter to regulate the most unpredictable of human emotions, love and lust.

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