![]() ![]() Urbanisation and untrammelled media are like tinder to the flame. In secular democracies it can spread like wildfire, igniting dissent and deviation. Precociously deep wage labour markets and urbanisation accelerated exogamy.Ĭonsensual marriage was encouraged but many continued to be arranged, even in late medieval London.įeminist activism is fundamental to breaking this pluralistic ignorance. The age of marriage was thus unusually high in North-Western Europe (mid-twenties), especially when wages were low. Young men and women often worked in service until they saved enough to establish their own nuclear households. In the 14th Century, English marriages seldom occurred during Lent nor if men had prior relations with her kinswoman (as was proscribed by the Church). There was broad compliance with myriad Church strictures, which cannot be explained by anything but religion. ![]() Peasants disregarded lineage and rarely exchanged work with extended kin. Noble families leveraged incest prohibitions to prevent their rivals from consolidating wealth.Įnglish families were nuclear before the Black Death. Both were run by men.įrom 300-1300 CE, the Roman Catholic Church and Carolingian Empire tried to stamp out cousin marriage and polygamy. Patrilineal clans emerged in Europe as a result of colonisation by horse-riding steppe peoples.įrankish empires blended Germanic tribes’ participatory assemblies and Roman state institutions. ![]()
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