Diarmaid MacCulloch: commitment

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…Isn’t spousal consent an important idea, by what, the 12th century? Yes, exactly, by the 12th century. Yes, part of the great revolution of thinking about marriage and sex in the 12th century, but that’s 1,200 years, more than half of Christian history. Yes, we must — I’m sure we will — talk about the importance of the 12th century in the West, which transformed so many different things about marriage and sex. Where does that shift come from in the 12th or, arguably, even the 11th century?…

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