Re:Hajnal line
by gpvos on Sunday September 30, 2018 @04:59PM
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The article links to the article on the Western European marriage pattern, which gives as a major explanation the marriage rules instituted by the Roman Catholic church. But weirdly enough, the areas in Western Europe where the pattern does not hold (southern Spain and Italy, Ireland) are deeply Roman Catholic. Does anyone have an explanation for that?
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Yes: different times.
These marriage patterns changed sometime long before 1500, maybe circa 1000AD -- so if the church had a hand in it, it's the medieval church.
The places where this pattern was strongest went on to invent Protestant religion, and have now largely moved on from formal church. While the places the present-day Catholic church is strongest are outside this zone... or weren't christian at all in at the relevant time (like Spain, and Mexico).