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Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage. [1]
Concubinage as committed by a husband demands a higher burden of proof, requiring the wife to provide both evidence of an affair and of the husband's keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling, having sexual intercourse under "scandalous circumstances" or having lived together with his mistress in any other place. [14]
Concubinatus (Latin, "concubinage") was a monogamous union, intended to be of some duration but not necessarily permanent, that was socially and to some extent legally recognized as an alternative to marriage in the Roman Empire.
Concubinage of female slaves was an accepted practice in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. [5] Slave concubinage was practiced in the Byzantine empire. [11] However, this practice was banned by Christian clergy. [12] Concubines in Jewish communities are known as pilegesh; slave concubinage is mentioned in Biblical texts. [12]
Concubines in Canada were traditionally native women who were not believed suitable to become full wives to the European settlers. Elizabeth "Molly" Brant, the sister of the famed native chief Joseph Brant is believed to have served as the concubine to Sir William Johnson; [3] although his sexual promiscuity was widely known.
The ranks of imperial consorts have varied over the course of Chinese history but remained important throughout owing to its prominence in the management of the inner court and in imperial succession, which ranked heirs according to the prominence of their mothers in addition to their birth order.
Pilegesh (Hebrew: פִּילֶגֶשׁ) is a Hebrew term for a concubine, a female, unmarried sexual slave [1] of social and legal status inferior to that of a wife. [2] [3] Among the Israelites, some men acknowledged their concubines, and such women enjoyed the same rights in the house as legitimate wives.
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between a man and a woman in which the couple are not or cannot be married. The woman in such a relationship is referred to as a concubine. Concubines have existed in all cultures, though the status of rights and expectations of a concubine have varied.