Medieval Myths: Marital Age
How common were child marriages?
Note from The WilderNet: Fortunately, child marriage was not as common as a lot of people seem to think especially in the lower classes. Sucks to be in the ruling class I guess.
Discussions
- Luckily most girls weren't getting married off at 12
Here's part of the note I wrote on substack
There’s a tendency in media to paint medieval people as backwards, almost willfully ignorant and cruel, particularly when it comes to the health and wellbeing of women and girls. I'm thinking specifically of the scene in the pilot…