#just found out that pre-1215 there were more degrees of consangunity than there are of kevin bacon! :O | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nostalgia-tblr · 10 months ago

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thanks to the sort of gossipy history i tend to read i know entirely too much about the grounds on which i could get out of the unhappy medieval european marriage that i am not and never will be part of.

#just found out that pre-1215 there were more degrees of consangunity than there are of kevin bacon! :O #1215 must have been WILD - magna carta AND endless discourse over whether your liege lord's current marriage is still incestuous!#tho tbh am tempted by just murdering my shitty husband it's not like they have forensics in those days they'd never prove anything #it MIGHT have been a genuine hunting accident this time. who's to say really? WHO BUT THE LORD DOEST KNOWETH???#(no i don't know how to correctly conjugate the verbs in Ye Olden. if that bothers u then GETTETH THEE UNTO FUCK)#btw u notice modern observers do NOT just un-count those marriages that get annulled on whatever grounds?#like nobody ACTUALLY thinks both tudor queens were illegitimate do they?#and eleanor of aquitaine def gets to have been married to two kings right?#this is another way in which history has said “fuck you” to henry 8th which obviously i am all in favour of (because fuck him)

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