Titlebook: Single Life and the City 1200-1900; Julie Groot,Isabelle Devos,Ariadne Schmidt Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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“Why did she not live with her husband and how was she able to support herself?” Grass Widow Prostit which little is known. Furthermore, I refer to these women as “grass widows”, despite the lack of an agreed-upon definition. Here, it is interpreted to include various types of married women living apart, whether living singly permanently or temporarily.

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Introduction Single and the City: Men and Women Alone in North-Western European Towns since the Latee single status was not a desirable state in most cases. In a society that expected everyone to marry, singles were stigmatised, marginalised and had a hard time making ends meet. This image of vulnerable singleness dominates the historiography and permeates all early modern and nineteenth-century l

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Destitute in December: Unmarried Scots Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861idowed, or estranged from a spouse — affected the experience of poverty in nineteenth-century urban Scotland. Case studies from Paisley in December 1861 reveal the variety of ways singleness and poverty intersected and suggest that the experience of destitution was distinctly shaped by marital statu

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Desperately Seeking the Single Man in Later Medieval Englandotherwise, for generations. Thus we have studies of bishops, of clergy and members of religious orders, of soldiers and aristocrats, merchants and artisans. Whereas, however, there is a specific and valuable scholarship that focuses on single women, even a recent monograph that explores the cultural

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To Be or Not to Be a Beguine in an Early Modern Town: Piety or Pragmatism? The Great Beguinage of Sto Anneke Ansens, one of her nieces that lived with her. These goods included furnishings such as her . (cupboard), her bed and its best bedding, and three of her blue cushions in addition to clothing such as her coats, best bodice and all of her . (beguine dresses).. Marieke, the niece of beguine Ka

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Single Life in Fifteenth-Century Bruges: Living Arrangements and Material Culture at the Fringes of nuclear in structure, ideally existing of a conjugal family with their child(ren) as its basic core, with or without live-in apprentices and servants.. One of the most important characteristics of the (West) European Marriage Pattern was the high age at marriage for both men and women, which meant