"The Heptameron"

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42 points out, someone of the higher class could obtain someone as a mistress but not as a wife. Marriage always had to be approved by your mistress. No matter how much one loved another, it also had to be consented between both sides of the family. You could not remarry until mourning was done. And a couple could not be active right after the wife gave birth. Most of the time, when a wife becomes a widow, she goes into religious life. It was thought of most honorable to do so. Another interesting aspect to marriage in the stories, a woman could marry young, so young that it was not lawful of the husband to sleep with her yet. Therefore, abiding him to partake of other woman.
Religion in had two views. One was a mask to get away with deceit. For instance, Saint Francis, in Story 23 used his good name to take advantage of the honorable woman. Also the girl who posed as the second Virgin Mary hid behind the church as a saint, where in actuality, it was her brother that got her ...

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