Than if you're looking at papal bulls & significant documents or laws.This tells us more about humanity which is the point of the humanities
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And this worked out with varying degrees of success & there was community justice & strong expectations of not being a complete arsehole.
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In communities where everyone was very close together, indications that one spouse was not caring for the other wld bring strong disapproval
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Thought: Maybe the "freedom" and lack of direct social contact creates new obsticals for people. A certain frustration. Like an open sea.
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More options = less imperative to make marriage work. I still think that's better on the whole.
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I'm not saying we should limit the freedom. I was thinking that not everybody is able to cope with this. Or at least not as well.
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I agree. This is the argument for collectivism. Liberalism, individualism etc has a cost.
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Yes. I thought it was interesting because the people who don't seem to be able to cope as well, claim they are oppressed.
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Yet oppression is a result of what they propose. They seem to be unaware that they're problem might not be oppression,
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Only a small minority of men had any meaningful power or wealth
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And in the upper echelons, the women had it too over the men in lower classes. But not over their husbands.
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Exactly that. Also men's lives in the Middle Ages were mostly backbreaking labour too, and occasionally being forced to fight in brutal wars
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