Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato - Medievalists.net

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Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem