Seduzione, matrimonio, matrimoni misti, conversioni. Brevi riflessioni sul caso veneziano nel basso medioevo
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Keywords
- Defining seduction as a crime
- even when it was by mutual consent
- had criminalized all forms of illegal sexuality
- including that which is consensual
- nonetheless
- it had certainly not discouraged the conscious and deliberate use of informal and transgressive relations as training for marriage. Even rape
- especially when qualified by agreement or promise
- was a mechanism for the construction of a wedding
- fitting naturally in a space
- between transgression and tolerance
- of sociability for the purpose of marriage. This space provided the opportunity
- especially in Venice
- a city marked by a high rate of immigration
- for the promotion of mixed marriages. However
- it does not seem to have made a great impact in boosting religious conversion for the purpose of marriage
