17 mars 2021
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Jean-Pascal Gay, « Of Blessings, Marriage and Relationships. Notes on the (troubled) History of Second Nuptials. », Histoires catholiques, ID : 10.58079/pl77
[this is the translation of the original post in French : https://histcatho.hypotheses.org/131] The history of the refusal and tolerance of second nuptials in ancient and medieval Christianity is well known. In the early Christian centuries, as the Fathers of the Church attest, second marriages were at best only tolerated. Basil thus considers that second marriages are not really worthy of the name (letter 188). Second marriages are the object of canonical provisions which mark the reproba...