Very interesting read and full of details and primary sources. If you are not used to ancient British, keep a dictionary handy. Call me naive, but it had not o

Very interesting read and full of details and primary sources. If you are not used to ancient British, keep a dictionary handy. Call me naive, but it had not occurred to me before, that marriage ought to be lavish, not because its an important social event but because it ought to be unaffordable expensive for the young and the poor.