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How did the Church try to protect medieval women?

by granting them economic equality with men

by instructing them in letters and mathematics

by granting forgiveness for their sins

by setting a minimum age for marriage

by setting a minimum age for marriage

Explanation:

By the beginning of the thirteenth century, around 1215, the church had established the relationship between married couples up to the fourth degree in relation to marriage, showing a certain mobility of the Church in relation to the wealthy families who did not admit to dispersing their fortune. The church determined that girls had a minimum age to marry that it was between the ages of twelve and fifteen that made it much more difficult to fulfill the desire they might have of not marrying a particular fiance.