I do not intend to say one word to weaken the bonds of matrimony.
They regarded themselves and their bodies as joined together in holy matrimony and that is why this is a serious debate.
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.
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.
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.
They assert resistance to thoughts of matrimony.
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.
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.
