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- W3148319361 abstract "The search for a bride, with all its complexities, its political implications and its possible cultural consequences, had a simple goal: the birth of a child. This was the biological event on which the fortunes of kingdoms turned. Rulers in the patriarchal and dynastic world of medieval Europe were expected to be brave, violent, aggressive, forceful – qualities that were associated with men. But the thing on which dynastic continuity, and indeed the very existence of dynasties, relied, was the female body, and what it alone could do: conceive and give birth. So, once the new bride had been chosen, attention focussed on her ability to conceive children, especially sons. The natural fertility and mortality of upper-class and lower-class people were probably quite similar, but age at marriage might be different. In late medieval England, it has been calculated, women of the top level of the aristocracy married, on average, at seventeen, men at twenty-two. It seems, however, that practices at the very apex of the social hierarchy, the rulers, often included much earlier marriage." @default.
- W3148319361 created "2021-04-13" @default.
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- W3148319361 date "2020-07-09" @default.
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- W3148319361 title "Waiting for Sons to be Born" @default.
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