Timothy W. Jahn. A Love Story
1A Love Story
In Scotland, there is a legend about St. Bridget, which is one of the three most revered saints in the United Kingdom. One day she came to Saint Patrick and complained about the heavy proportion of women suffering from unrequited love. Holy resented that women were forbidden to be active in the relationship that they have to wait on men marriage proposal, and so sometimes remain for life in the old maid. Saint Patrick supported Brigitte in her concern for women and allowed the latter to “exercise such activity”, but ……… on February 29.
February 29, 1288 in the Scottish Parliament was passed an unusual law according to which a man, who refused to marry a woman who made ??him an offer of marriage, was required to pay a fine. Prerequisite for the emergence and adoption of this law, as the story goes, was the “shortage” of men in the country. As men-knights literally thousands perished in wars, on the knightly tournaments and matches.
Therefore lords of the Scottish Parliament, concerned about the increasing number of spinsters in the noble and ancient lineages, approved the law and declared that henceforth and forever on this day – 29 February every woman in the state itself has the ability to make a proposal of marriage to the man. And if he refuses the marriage, it is obliged to pay her family is quite impressive for the time penalty – 1 pound.
From fines and could be released, but only if the man argued that the already engaged to another woman and imagined his chosen representatives of the law and the “pretender” on his arm.
Pretty quickly, this tradition, approved by law, has spread like across Scotland, and then the UK, and in the neighboring countries. And one time in four years the fair sex had the legal right, discarding all the conventions and rules of etiquette, suggest the elects hand and heart (even if they did not want this, and).
However, how many marriages were made based on the results of February 29 after the introduction of the law in the country in historical documents, unfortunately, did not survive.
Artist Timothy W. Jahn.
Education:
Ani Art Academy Waichulis, PA
The Waichulis Studio, Apprentice, Mountain Top, PA
Graduate, duCret School of Art, Plainfield, NJ
LaCoste School of Art, LaCoste, France
National Academy of Fine Art and Design, New York, NY
The Art Students League, New York, NY
Middlesex County Arts High School, Edison, NJ
From 2008 to the present time the founder and director of Jahn Studios Apprentice Program.
