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To: goldworldnet who wrote (303302)	5/1/2009 1:58:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 793974

For such young marriage to work, you really need either a primitive society, where a 14 year old already knows everything she needs to know to be an adult woman, or a three generation family. Or an older husband who finishes the job of raising his wife. In previous centuries of Europe, many marriages fit that pattern. There is one very charming 14th century book (whose name completely slips my mind) that was written as an instruction manual by a 55 year old husband to his 15 year old wife. He gives her advice on good conduct, morals, and running the household (including some interesting recipes), and also on the selection of a good second husband after he dies. Medieval people remarried all the time due to the higher mortality rate. As I recall the circumstances of the marriage, he was a commoner who had risen high in the service of one of French dukes, and she was of noble birth but had become orphaned and without a guardian, so she needed to get married quickly for her own protection. So those closest to her arranged it. She brought higher status but little money, he had the wealth and position. As far as you can tell from the book, the marriage was quite happy.

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