A History of Marriage - Part 3
Welcome to the third and final installment of my A History of Marriage series. In Part 1 , I looked at the history and origins of marriage licenses and many marriage traditions. In Part 2 I looked at the history of and science behind marriage age, cousin marriages and avunculate (uncle/aunt with niece/nephew) marriages. In Part 3 we'll look at... POLYGAMY , marriage of a person to more than one partners at once. More specifically, we'll look at POLYGYNY (the marriage of a man to more than one wife at the same time), although that'll touch briefly on POLYANDRY (the marriage of a woman to more than one husband at the same time). Some refer to it as PLURAL MARRIAGE . It's frowned upon by Western societies. (I recommend reading my article Does the Torah Still Apply? . It bears relevance here.) I'll defer to Amanda L. Boyd. She uses Hebrew names, so I'll insert the English equivalent in [square brackets] the first time each Hebrew name occurs. I'll