Constance, 1414. Nothing prepares Marie for the cataclysm that is about to befall her life. Her beauty, chastity, and dowry promise her the best of matches. In love with Michel, her childhood friend, she wants to settle in Cologne to live her life independently. But her father, a wealthy merchant, has other plans. According to his will, she will marry Master Ruppertus Splendidus, a young and brilliant lawyer, the illegitimate... see more