Officially, ecclesiastical matrimony had thus replaced secular, private, and clandestine marriage.
An institution that survives, such as matrimony, responds surely even if stubbornly to cultural change.
The ilmuhaber is never fully transcribed, but the record invariably tells us that it guaranteed that the bride had no legal impediment to matrimony.
In a discussion, for example, of the words "patrimony" and "matrimony," she shows not only gender distinctions but how the words apply to different worlds.
Essential to this project was the need to form a modernist culture that lauded matrimony, domesticity, and motherhood.
No matter how much the clergy might try to control marriage, people looked upon matrimony as their own personal affair.
One possible explanation for the latter finding is that men and women who drink heavily prior to marriage may reduce their drinking subsequent to matrimony.
In tackling this matter, one has to ask what kind of control a manorial lord could or would want to exercise over the matters of matrimony of his social inferiors.
And while there was certainly a postwar rush into matrimony, there are strong arguments that the dynamics of marriage in the 1920s were significantly different from those of the 1900s.
They assert resistance to thoughts of matrimony.
On the other, young men of similar social status were discouraged from matrimony so as to prevent the fragmentation of the patrimony which would ensue from a proliferation of heirs.
As other scholars have argued, the rise of the novel as a literary genre contributed to the development of bourgeois norms of courtship, matrimony, and child-rearing.
Matrimony refers to marriage, not to inherited property; whereas patrimony refers not to gender but to property which the man will inherit from the father or uncle.
They regarded themselves and their bodies as joined together in holy matrimony and that is why this is a serious debate.
I do not intend to say one word to weaken the bonds of matrimony.
