Going to Court

*I apologize ahead of time for not knowing how to use the "Read More" feature so you don't have to scroll through my entire post to get to the previous ones. (Does anyone know how to?) I also apologize for not providing many links to other material, hopefully I will get better with that. They're mostly links to Wikipedia pages, simply because Wikipedia lists other links for more specific and in-depth material, allowing one to not have to place links all over the place to the point that they become a pollutant. Hopefully the professors aren't anti-Wikipedia...*

Courtship (which, in context, I will use as meaning "the process by which two people come to be married" regardless of one's individual willingness and then the continuation of their courtship after marriage) is one example of domestic folk knowledge that has been around since essentially the beginning of time. It is also one that has changed greatly in recent years and that we are often counseled on in particularly from general authorities. It is for these reasons that I am selecting courtship traditions as my form of domestic folk knowledge to focus on from a historic perspective.