Michael Jones

This idea, I mean, there's just so much.

You talk about Delaware being the average age.

You talk about Delaware being the average age.

Again, that was a cultural thing that allowed for early arranging of marriages.

Again, that was a cultural thing that allowed for early arranging of marriages.

If you read historians like Kim Phillips, she notes that often in times when these early arranged marriages throughout the European world and their expansion, when those were put into practice, it was about saying, hey, you can arrange this marriage early, sometimes between elites.

If you read historians like Kim Phillips,

She notes that often in times when these early arranged marriages throughout the European world and their expansion, when those were put into practice, it was about saying, hey, you can arrange this marriage early, sometimes between elites.

However, they would often include clauses that consummation,

However, they would often include clauses that consummation could not happen.

could not happen.

She notes in her book Medieval Maidens, for example, that when the king of Aragon was giving his daughter away at a young age, there was a clause, you cannot consummate this marriage until much later.

She notes in her book, Medieval Maidens, for example, that when the king of Aragon was giving his daughter away at a young age, there was a clause, you cannot consummate this marriage until much later.

She notes that consummation of marriages, again, was not happening until late teens to early 20s.

She notes that consummation of marriages, again, was not happening till late teens to early 20s.

So it didn't happen at all?

So it didn't happen at all, is what you're saying?

It didn't happen at all.

It didn't happen at all.

I'm not saying it didn't happen at all.