Goody-Maydick

In Jack Goody's piece "The development of the family and marriage in Europe" he speaks about different types of marriage between non family members and also family members. One part that really stuck out to me was in the second section of the reading "divorce and remarriage", was that the church strictly forbade the marriage of a dead spouses family members. This was interesting to me because sisters and brothers could marry each other and it was allowed, but if they tried to marry any in-laws it is forbidden. The death of husbands and wives was very common therefore it made it harder to find a mate that was not one of your in laws.