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grbs-2051	Burton, Joan B.	Abduction and Elopement in the Byzantine Novel	2000	33	.pdf	application/pdf	11849	421	57	382 ABDUCTION AND ELOPEMENT within the church also, the question of the female’s consent was at times judged irrelevant: both Canon 27 of the Council of Chal- cedon (A.D. 451) and Canon 92 of the Council in Trullo (A.D. 691/2) prohibited abduction marriages, regardless of consent.1 8 Basil’s canons continued to be influential, however, which allowed abductions to result in marriages if all concerned parties consented, including church and parents, with forcible abductions requiring only penance in addition.19 From the eleventh to the thirteenth century, the legitimacy of abduction marriages was an area of vigorous controversy for legal theorists of both canon and civil law, with varied results. Non-consensual abductions by suitors in the Greek novels A comparison with abductions in other Greek novels under- scores the innovation of Prodromos’s abduction.	cache/grbs-2051.pdf	txt/grbs-2051.txt