How Were Families Involved In Choosing Partners?
What are three reasons families set up arranged marriages?
(Power, property, and wealth.)
Was love required to get married?
(No)
What was the husband's role in the 1500s?
( head of the house)
What legal and religious rules governed everyday life in this society, and how were they recorded or transmitted?
(secular law, pervasive Church canon law, oral tradition, and printing press)
How old is Juliet?
(12)
What was not required for partners to have an arranged marriage?
(love)
Who mostly controls the marriage?
(Parents)
What was the wife's duty in the 1500s?
(have children, be obedient to the husband)
In what areas did religious rules overlap with secular law, and how were conflicts between them resolved by authorities?
(Marriage, wills, morality, and church property)
What was there social pressure against?
(Marrying down a class)
Who had the most power in the arranged marriage?
(The parents)
Courtship activities typically took place in public with who had to be present?
(family member)
How was love expected to grow in marriages during that time?
( shared duties, and mutual respect)
What institutions or actors enforced these rules, what sanctions were used, and how consistently were they applied?
(Secular and religious)
Did the purpose of marriage differ significantly between the upper classes in the 1500s?
(yes The upper class focused more on political alliances rather than love)
How did the role of personal liking in marriage change, and what factors became more or less important during the early modern era?
(More important)
On what basis were marriages typically arranged?
( wealth and ownership)
How did legal and religious rules affect different social groups, and what exemptions or special statuses existed?
(Clergy and nobility)
Three main factors were important and marriage in the 1500s?
(family consent, social property, financial stability)
Why was love not a requirement in most marriages?
(Because family and the community was the main part.)
How did these rules change over time, and what political, economic, social, or theological factors drove those changes?
(Protestant Reformation and the rise of centralized state power.)