Josef:
Very euphemistically put, if I say so myself. But a very plausible
possibility.
Matthew Hammond
>Mark:
> At the risk of riding the bicycle of impropriety even further
>along the tightrope of indiscretion , we should note the time
>winnowed and well ensconced
>euphemistic use of "nephew" or "neice" to refer to a closely bonded,
>sub-introductus/a of a more than familial relationship. In fact, if I
>am not mistaken, the phrase "the Bishop's nephew" had a quite
>specific meaning in XVIth and XVIIthc English and Continental
>literature. The usage endures to this day.
>Geneologies being, as you suggest, what they were, or weren't,, and
>human natures even among the clergy being what they were or weren't,
>the leap to 'bastard son', is not the only possibility.
>Josef Gulka
>Josef Gulka
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