How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans

How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans

Medieval church rules against marrying close relatives broke down strict, long-standing kinship structures, paving the way for a more individualistic modern Western society. In September 506 C.E., the fathers of what would later become the Roman Catholic Church gathered in southern France to draw up dozens of new laws. […]

How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans

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