The Chronicler stumbled upon a snippet of something medieval in her many forays:
"Marriages are recognised between slaves, between freemen ans serfs,between Catholics and heretics, or Catholics and excommunicants, but not between Christians and heathens, since the latter have not been baptized. Until the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), marriage between an adulterer who had become free to marry and his fellow-sinner was prohibited, as was marriage between an abductor and a victim he later set free; now both are permitted."
Joseph and Frances Gies, "Weddings and Funerals," Life in a Medieval City (1981) p.69
The romance novel just writes itself from that, doesn't it?
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