6 sentences with 'marriages'
Example sentences and phrases with the word marriages and other words derived from it.
• « While most political marriages in Byzantium, as in virtually all pre-modern societies, had nothing to do with love or even attraction, Theodora and Justinian clearly shared both genuine affection for each other and intellectual kinship. »
• « Marriages were only valid if both parties married voluntarily, and it is clear that many medieval marriages were genuinely loving partnerships despite medieval society being explicitly patriarchal and despite the prevalence of misogynistic theories about the supposed weakness and sinfulness of women. »
• « The Church supervised births, marriages, contracts, wills and deaths - every law was, by implication, the law of God himself. »
• « One of the great historians of the time, Eric Hobsbawm, noted in his The Age of Empire that Europe had never seen so many states ruled by "emperors" as in the early 20th century: the Empress of the British Empire, the Kaiser of the German Reich, the Kaiser of the Austrian Reich and the Tsar of the Russian Empire were not only contemporaries, but were all related by dynastic marriages. »
• « Lucrezia had several marriages, almost all for political reasons dictated by Cesare Borgia. She is said to have been a scatterbrain who, like a queen bee, enjoyed every morning watching the one who had been her casual lover the night before die. »
• « Under Southern law, slaves could not marry. However, some slave owners allowed marriages to promote childbearing and harmony on the plantations. »