El matrimonio clandestino en el siglo XVII: entre el amor, las conveniencias y el discurso tridentino

Abstract

The Council of Trent —Tametsi decree— following the position started in the IV Letran Council, declared invalid clandestine marriages, undertaken out of the church, without the required publicity, presence of the parish priest or witnesses; regulation that would take some time to be accepted by the marriages of the time. In the baroque Seville, clandestine marriages persisted, either as a representation of love unions without the parents consent, or as a strategy for social promotion used by families of lower condition.