ISBN:
9781137406392
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Devos, Isabelle Single Life and the City 1200-1900
DDC:
306.815094
Keywords:
History, Modern
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Single and the City: Men and Women Alone in North-Western European Towns since the Late Middle Ages -- Part I: Constraints and Opportunities -- 1 Working Alone? Single Women in the Urban Economy of Late Medieval Flanders (Thirteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries) -- 2 Creating a Space for Themselves on the Urban Market: Survival Strategies and Economic Opportunities for Single Women in French Provincial Towns (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
Abstract:
3 Maids, Noblewomen, Journeymen, State Officials, and Others: Unmarried Adults in Four Swedish Towns, 1750-1855 -- 4 Destitute in December: Unmarried Scots Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861 -- Part II: Group Experiences and Particularities -- 5 Desperately Seeking the Single Man in Later Medieval England -- 6 To Be or Not to Be a Beguine in an Early Modern Town: Piety or Pragmatism? The Great Beguinage of St Catherine in Sixteenth-Century Mechelen -- 7 "Why did she not live with her husband and how was she able to support herself?" Grass Widow Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Bruges
Abstract:
Part III: Home and Material Culture -- 8 Single Life in Fifteenth-Century Bruges: Living Arrangements and Material Culture at the Fringes of Urban Society -- 9 Single People and the Material Culture of the English Urban Home in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 10 Rich, Male and Single: The Consumption Practices of Edward Leigh, 1742-86 -- Selected Bibliography on Singles and Single Life, Western Europe, 1200-1900 -- Index
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