As a general rule it takes at least a generation for any change in a behaviour pattern to move down one rung on the social scale. In those days it usually took several generations. So it becomes a certainty that there are different patterns between different social classes.
>This is something that's actually missing, IMO, in both Glorantha and KAP.
>
>Marriage, as the legal institution that we in the West currently know,
>is actually a relatively recent invention. That is, prior to the modern
>invention of pervasive legalism, marriage was, generally speaking, just
>the social recognition that a man and a woman were living together and
>producing offspring (or not). Except for the rich and/or powerful.
What's often called "common law marriage", finally abolished in England during the 18th Century along with the practice of selling wives to their new partner as a cheap alternative to divorce.
I wonder where in Glorantha that practice exists? Teshnos? or perhaps selling husbands is practiced in Esrolia.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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