I also want to say that consanguinity was not the same, over all periods, or enforced. Yes, marriage eventually became considered a sacrament. But that didn't stop a regular couple living in rural wherever from basically just exchanging gifts and saying, okay we're married.
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Medieval marriage is a difficult and complex topic that intersects with the Church, dogma, control, political unions, economics, etc.
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Also, when we talk about it we usually discuss it within the perspective of the visible people in the sources aka nobles.
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So, onto sources. Constance B. Bouchard, "Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in Tenth and Eleventh Century France," Speculum 56:2 (1981): 268 - 287. Discusses that consanguinity was maintained, however, it was not always adhered to and there were ways to skirt around it.
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Mayke de Jong, "An Unsolved Riddle: Early Medieval Incest Legislation," in Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian Period: An Ethnographic Perspective, which surveys the problems of the topic and the debates.
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Also, the erosion of family ties is something that is widely discussed under the entirety of the scholarship on feudalism (however applicable/inapplicable that word and model may be now). I mean...Marc Bloch. Scholarship has moved past him but...foundational.
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Medieval marriage is widely discussed. WIDELY discussed. Georges Duby is a classic, albeit outdated perhaps now.
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Any of you scientists who claim to want to know more about it? Go to google scholar and input "medieval consanguinity" or "medieval marriage" or "medieval families" or something of the like.
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I went through the sources on this: I saw
@rmkarras cited for a brief comment about early medieval Europe before the Church started to mandate marriage as a sacrament.2 replies 2 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
Haha. T.M. Charles-Edwards got a mention too. Too bad it wasn’t his massive tome on Kinship.
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