Marriage
Note from the chapter Sex As Sacrament in Sex In History

In Rome, the patrician families married by the quasi-religious rite of "confarreatio", but among the populace a marital relationship was recognized in common law whenever a couple had lived together for a year: it could be dissolved as easily. There was also a bourgeois version of "confarreatio", known as "coemptio".

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