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Originally Posted by Sultana
Eh, it's honestly just a hold-over of days when women were considered property, pure and simple. I guess we should be grateful they didn't get into the habit of branding women when they wed, or else we'd have a thread on "Did you get branded when you got married?", and discussing the merits of why or why not brand, how meaningful it can be, and branding as a symbol of selflessness and unity...  |
I would say its more of a hold over days when the woman would join the mans family. Taking the last name would be a way of saying you are now part of that clan, no longer an outsider. If anything it would have been a way of saying you were equal to the other family members. We forget that prior to the industrial age, families tended to stay together, in the same home, for many generations.