And it just so happens there is evidence that Greece dropped cousin marriage before its Classical Golden Age.https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/503238414784016385 …
@Glossophiliac75 ...short version here: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/whatever-happened-to-european-tribes/ … more in this book by jack goody: http://books.google.com/books?id=LVkYFGqylfQC … (^_^)
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@hbdchick And it went on inbreeding. Perhaps commoners didn't inbreed simply because they didn't want to. -
@Glossophiliac75 no, there was a huge campaign by the church throughout medieval period. and there were secular laws in various countries. -
@hbdchick Yet the people who wanted to skirt those laws (royalty) skirted them. -
@Glossophiliac75 but, again, they didn't *always* skirt them. see the frankish aristocrats of the 900s-1100s for one example. -
@hbdchick The fact that the Church promoted something doesn't necessarily mean that it introduced it. -
@Glossophiliac75 oh, it did. again, see goody. and all the other medieval historians who agree upon this.
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@hbdchick Dark Age Europe was tribal. That's a well-known fact. Did it practice inbreeding? I don't know if that's been established. -
@Glossophiliac75 yeah. see that book by jack goody. historians are all in agreement on this. question is how much, of course. who knows...?
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@hbdchick But the European aristocracy did not abide by such rules. Inbreeding was the norm for them from the Dark Ages till the 19th cent. -
@Glossophiliac75 they went through phases, actually. there were very few aristo cousin marriages in the 900s-1100s in france for instance...
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@hbdchick anti-inbreeding laws. It seems that everyone who wanted to skirt them did. The aristocracy considered inbreeding beneficial.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@hbdchick Lots of laws in our day are treated by everyone as mere suggestions. It seems that this was the case with the Church'sThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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