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.
