Sex, Worship, & Covenant Part II: Sex, Power, and Marriage: From Ancient Rome to English Law

Host Queen Bathsheba explores how ideas about sex and marriage transformed from Roman practices through early Christianity to medieval English law in Part Two of Sex, Worship, and Covenant. The episode traces Roman sexual hierarchies, the covenantal shift in early Christian teaching, and how medieval inheritance and property concerns narrowed understandings of marriage and fornication. Listeners will learn why modern debates about sexuality mix theological covenant and governmental regulation, and how historical legal systems reshaped moral language and social order.