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What was the punishment for rejecting marriage in the middle ages?
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∙ 11y ago
Church Law in the Middle Ages dictated the a marriage could only be entered into on a voluntary basis. So no judge would ever sentence a person for refusing to marry someone else. Angry and disappointed fathers was of course another story.
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