>The marital exploits of the Merovingians, specifically extensive
>polygamy, are mentioned in Gregory of Tours with hardly a blink of an
>eyelash. I presume that most churchmen reconciled themselves (at least
>in the first generations) to practices that they had little hope of
>extinguishing.
--- especially among the upper classes. We clergy usually like them.
See Trollope, passim...
a.c.
Anselm Cramer OSB
Ampleforth Abbey, York
GB - YO6 4EN
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