Essays on Marriage (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Essays on Marriage Exceptionally at the wedding in 856 of the Saxon king Ethelwulf to Bertha, daughter of Charles the Bald, a priest blessed the ring but took no other part in the ceremony; the first recorded canon requiring a priest to officiate is found at Treves in 1227, but the requirement did not become general throughout Europe until after 1400. II What was true of marriage was correspondingly true of divorce; it was universally regarded as a private matter concerning only the parties involved, and nowhere was there anything corresponding to our divorce courts. Under Roman law either party could divorce the other at any time, with or without assigning reasons. Under Greek law the husband had this privilege but the wife was obliged first to obtain the consent of a magistrate. Under Jewish law the right of the husband was unqualified but the wife could not exercise it under any circumstances; an owner can dispose at will of his property but property cannot dispose of its owner. The sole restriction laid on the husband was that he must give the divorced woman a "bill of divorcement," a certificate testifying that she was now released from his control. This unrestricted right of the husband needs emphasis, for in modern discussions too much weight has been laid on the relevancy of Jewish Rabbinic disputes. It is true that R. Shammai taught that a man sinned if he divorced his wife unless she had been guilty of licentious behavior, while R. Hillel told husbands that their con sciences were clear if they merely preferred another woman. But such rulings were purely academic; as long as a husband gave his wife the required certificate and restored her dowry, no one could interfere with his divorcing her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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