Ma quali sono le origini dell'handfasting... (Seconda parte)
Torniamo indietro di 800 anni...
L'handfasting nel 1200 consisteva in una Christian engagement ceremony (according to the laws of canon law ) recognized by both church and state. The ritual nature of Celtic, was very similar to that of a marriage, with plenty of witnesses, etc. contract. except that the promises exchanged were expressed as to the future ... es. take you as my wife ...
if they had been handed down to this ... take you ... was a real wedding, and the couple would be married girlfriend instead!
But you have to add that under no obligation to c'cera ceremony itself, the two boys could also decide to get engaged with neither the participants nor rite ... alone ... and their word was enough to make their engagement official!
In 1200 there was still the custom to tie the hands ... handfasting stood for a handshake. fact in medieval Scotland, the agreements were taking shaking hands ... a gesture that was worth more than a signature!
Usually the engagement period lasted one year and one day, over which the two engaged couples could choose to marry or not.
But if, during that period, the engagement was "consumed" , the two boys at that point were considered to have "married" without the need for further wedding!
Otherwise, a ceremony was very similar to that engagement, where the promise was exchanged to the present.
And how for the engagement, the couple could to decide to get married without either a priest or witnesses ... alone in a forest with squirrels as the only guests, and even then, the ritual was considered legal. The Church, however, preferred that the marriage was celebrated before the church (in Scotland in the Middle Ages and not before we got married inside the church) in the presence of a priest, and in the case of marriages "illegal", as above, the priests tried to convince the newly married couple to marry a second time with a traditional wedding ceremony.
When we got married in Scotland medieval was for life ... there is neither divorce nor remarriage, until the Scottish Reformation in 1560.
Prior to this, the husband and wife could stop living together, in short, separated but not divorced. The marriage, however, could be canceled for various reasons ... married too young of age ... the girl with less than 12 years, the boy under 14, or closely related, or that one of the two would be married ... etc..
As I said above, do not know the exact period when it was introduced nell'handfasting, the custom of binding hands of sweethearts with a ribbon tied gently, which allegorically represented the union of the two mutual commitment. Custom then repeated a year and a day later at the wedding (if they had decided to marry), but this time with a closer node, which stood for 's union for life.
Up to 1600 the whole Handfasting was recognized by both church and state, then then only by the state until 1940. Now, since 2004, marriage Handfasting, is considered a civil ceremony in all respects (Recognized by the state).
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