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Dude, my professor was talking a little bit about marriage, around the time the modern conception of marriage began, and everything about it is even more sexist than I thought.
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History buff here.
A part of the reason women were expected to be loyal was so that paternity could be determined. Still sexist as hell...
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At those times, people rarely married for love, so it's more probable that Mikael and Esther had an arranged marriage that benefit both their families.
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It was more of a property arrangement thing... Usually the people who could marry for love were the poor because they had nothing to bring to the bargaining table... The richer you were, the more likely marriage was an arranged thing.