When I look at the "Status of Women" set of laws enabled by the (otherwise mostly useless) "Tolerance" technology,
I realize that someone looked at the swath of drooling imbeciles and raving lunatics spawned out of generations of politically convenient cousin and avunculate marriages throughout either the real middle ages or the game representation of them, and she said to herself:
"I know what would have made history better - more women in positions of authority!"
That's nice, dear.
Meanwhile, back in reality and in the game, there are game cultures which prohibit avunculate marriage, and in real history, a steady evolution of religious customs did eventually get Europe to the point where, as presently, avunculate marriages may not occur under canon law, and cousin marriages require an ecclesiastical dispensation.
Ideally, I would like to see a state of law requiring the dispensation, reflected by a piety cost, a minimum relationship with the religious head, and the political concerns of the religious head. However, practically, if one does not want to code that (and I'm not sure much work is being done at this point) it would be easier to create a mechanism to prohibit these entirely.
Perhaps, religious customs three can unlock "prohibit avuncular", religious customs four "cousin marriage with dispensation", and religious customs five "prohibit cousin marriage." Or, perhaps, at three, five, and seven.
I realize that someone looked at the swath of drooling imbeciles and raving lunatics spawned out of generations of politically convenient cousin and avunculate marriages throughout either the real middle ages or the game representation of them, and she said to herself:
"I know what would have made history better - more women in positions of authority!"
That's nice, dear.
Meanwhile, back in reality and in the game, there are game cultures which prohibit avunculate marriage, and in real history, a steady evolution of religious customs did eventually get Europe to the point where, as presently, avunculate marriages may not occur under canon law, and cousin marriages require an ecclesiastical dispensation.
Ideally, I would like to see a state of law requiring the dispensation, reflected by a piety cost, a minimum relationship with the religious head, and the political concerns of the religious head. However, practically, if one does not want to code that (and I'm not sure much work is being done at this point) it would be easier to create a mechanism to prohibit these entirely.
Perhaps, religious customs three can unlock "prohibit avuncular", religious customs four "cousin marriage with dispensation", and religious customs five "prohibit cousin marriage." Or, perhaps, at three, five, and seven.
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