SLAVIC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bourgeoisie, Wage War, Feudalism
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It started with people laying with their siblings, then people in their tribe, and then they moved to feudal marriages with the knight as an example. He was married to a woman, but still slept with other people or had a mistress who he loved more. Marriage was more seen as a contract between two people. It in no way demanded that love determine legal marriage relationships. At first, the idea of love and attraction were separate, but the bourgeoisie linked them together to form their own form of love. Capitalism always played a role in marriage arrangements in order to gain more wealth and keep it. Kinship - only form of love is brotherly sisterly love. Feudalism - chivalrous love platonic - unattainable/adoration. In order to wage war it was easier to motivate people by making them desirable to the knight by being unattainable.
