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ellis123 posted...

That said, it's not really all that hard to find people going over the findings: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/roman-catholic-church-ban-in-the-middle-ages-loosened-family-ties/

This is bloody cool. I recall hearing that the Catholic church also pioneered the nuclear family structure (husband, wife, and children they bore together as opposed to a clan based family that includes extended family members) to allow for nimble family movement in search of superior economic opportunities. This allowed the rise of journeymen and allowed people to learn trades and crafts under experts unrelated to them. Prior to this, skills were mostly taught and passed down from generation to generation within a single family.

So I can see how your link ties into this; reducing the amount of ties to allow someone to walk their own path.