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Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Ross, Margaret Clunies |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | In an interesting footnote to an article on the confrontation between the Christian church and Anglo-Saxon society, Eric John made the following suggestion: "The evidence [concerning spurious monastic communities] suggests that the pagan English were polygynous and continued to be so for some time after the conversion. . .. The decisive evidence seems to me, however, inferential."1 The present article seeks to examine the evidence for the practice of polygyny, more accurately concubinage, among the Anglo-Saxons and to establish that it is more than inferential. However, the generally piecemeal nature of our information about the social life of the period before the Conquest makes it impossible to determine how widespread concubinage was in the community at large. Much of the detailed information about individual concubines and their families concerns the upper classes and in particular, the royal houses, but this bias holds for most of our information about Anglo-Saxon social history and should not be regarded as prejudicial to the enquiry. Book Name: Anglo-Saxon History: Basic Readings |
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| Ending Page | 287 |
| Page Count | 37 |
| Starting Page | 251 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003249009-10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-10-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Anglo-saxon History: Basic Readings Anglo Saxon Evidence Widespread Concubinage Social Life Than Inferential |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
