Almost. I have a small objection:
Courting is a negotiation between noblemen and luxury prostitutes ("courtesans") for the price (often in favors) of their temporary companionship.
Based men, including noblemen, treated foids as livestock. Noblemen bought, sold and traded their princesses like they would do with a province, town or another piece of land; These courtesans were often daughters of bankrupt noblemen who were sent to the court (hence the name) or a richer nobleman to "develop her gifts", that is: learn dance, music, literature, etc. but would often offer themselves for temporary companionship (sex and arm-candy) to some noblemen in exchange of favors, and the ones who were luckier managed to wed a nobleman.
peasants traded their daughters for a goat or a dozen chickens. Merchants married their daughters to each other in order to consolidate business interests.
In all non-decadent times, society treats foids as a more colorful type of livestock, an idea I support.