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- Dictionaryconcubinage/kɒnˈkjuːbɪnɪdʒ/
noun
- 1. the practice of keeping a concubine, or the state of being a concubine: historical "what is the daughter of an infidel good for besides concubinage?"
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2 days ago · Social monogamy refers to a male and female's social living arrangement (e.g., shared use of a territory, behaviour indicative of a social pair, and/or proximity between a male and female) without inferring any sexual interactions or reproductive patterns. In humans, social monogamy equals monogamous marriage.
2 days ago · One type of de facto polygyny is concubinage, where only one woman gets a wife's rights and status, while other women remain legal house mistresses. Although a society may be classified as polygynous, not all marriages in it necessarily are; monogamous marriages may in fact predominate.
3 days ago · Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will. A marriage can also become a forced marriage even if both parties enter with full consent if one or both are later forced to stay in the marriage against their will. [1]
5 days ago · As many as two–thirds of the enslaved people in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1789 had been born in Africa, but by that time a significant number of Africans or children of Africans had become free. Here Moreau de Saint–Méry details the origins of this pivotal group.
3 days ago · The evidence presented demonstrates that concubinage and other sexual transgressions were significant issues within the ecclesiastical world of late colonial Peru and the early Republic. While the exact extent of these offenses remains difficult to ascertain due to limitations in the available data, it is clear that they were a sensitive and persistent problem.
2 days ago · Slavery is closely related to concubinage. While a Muslim could not marry his slave (nor was this rule strictly enforced), he could have a sexual relationship with her. Legally and morally, it was correct in Islamic law for a man to have sexual relations with up to four legal wives and an unlimited number of concubines (slaves).
1 day ago · CMEMS: Michelle Armstrong-Partida (Emory University) presents: "Enslaved Concubinage in the Sexual Culture of the Late Medieval Mediterranean." Wed, Oct 23, 2024 12pm to 1:15pm PT. Building 260, Pigott Hall, 252
