Breaking Up a Marriage

When people break up a marriage, it's sort of unnerving for everyone. And therefore there are all kinds of laws that this contract is very difficult to get out of. The rational for that being quite obvious, that society believes that it requires a secure environment for children but also just the general stability of things. But now, into this kind of feudal conception of marriage, there came in, very largely, i think, as a result of the poetic movement that was centred in southern france,. In the middle ages, what is called the cult of courtly love.

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