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  • Marriage and family

    • April 3, 2021
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    The opening paragraph from Dave’s article ‘Marriage and family’, one of the 27 articles on the site which are available to members. “During the Old Regime, marriage was both a religious act and a contract bound by the rules of royal law. To the Catholic Church marriage was a permanent state and a sacrament.  It
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  • Priesthood

    • March 6, 2021
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    Given his reputation as one of the world’s most notorious libertines it may (or indeed, perhaps, may not) come as a surprise to learn that Casanova was initially destined for a career in the Church.  In 1737, at the age of 12, he enrolled at Padua University to study Law, a valuable qualification for someone
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  • Crime and punishment

    • February 27, 2021
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    During his lifetime Casanova will have witnessed a sea-change in Europe in terms of its attitudes towards crime and punishment. Largely because of the influence of Enlightenment ideas, the fate awaiting felons at the start of the eighteenth-century was very different to that awaiting them at the end. Fortunately for Casanova, who was imprisoned on
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