I forwarded highlights of the discussion to Stanley Chodorow, who is
Provost here at UPenn and keeps active in his specialization of 12th
century canon law. Here is his response, which may be of some interest
to the conversants:
> By the way the answer to the question is that other medieval
> societies did not use the OT to justify violations of the canon law,
> particularly concubinage and polygamy. There were discussions in Norway
> about the degrees of consanguinity, because some communities, such as those
> in Greenland, were not large enough to allow marriage outside the seventh
> degree (which became the standard in the 12th; earlier it had been the 5th
> degree). There was also a lot of talk of married priests for a century and
> a half or so after the celibacy laws were first promulgated. That was
> especially true in England.
>
> Stanley Chodorow
> Provost
> University of Pennsylvania
Bob Kraft, UPenn
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