Marriage, for much of the medieval European society, was something done for diplomatic/property and wealth reasons.
Your average peasant covered in animal and human shit and dying of plague isn’t someone who’s gonna have anybneed to conduct diplomacy, nor are they gonna have much property and wealth.
Once again a reminder that the “experienced past”, so the way we think the past worked, only covers a very short timeframe.
I remember teaching telling me the Shakespearen audience went wtf when they heard Juliette mom married at 14. Never fact checked it though.
Why is he making them touch his dick?
He’s a priest.
But they’re adults.
I didn’t say he was good at it.
One could even argue that sort of thing is a prerequisite for priesthood.
The implication is that he’s a bad priest for them not being children.
