He added: “The reason the practice is so common is that ordinary people see family inter-marriage overall as something that is very positive, something that helps build family bonds and helps put families on a more secure financial foothold.
He added: “The reason the practice is so common is that ordinary people see family inter-marriage overall as something that is very positive, something that helps build family bonds and helps put families on a more secure financial foothold.
That has always been a thing. It was just not systematic, pairs are not always made of cousins in a family. Catholism have historically forbid mariage btw I-don’t-remember-how-very-far of degree but you would get a dispense by any local cury with the reason “but I do want to marry him/her”.