Single Life and the City 1200–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Single and the City: Men and Women Alone in North-Western European Towns since the Late Middle Ages....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Working Alone? Single Women in the Urban Economy of Late Medieval Flanders (Thirteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries)....Pages 27-49
Creating a Space for Themselves on the Urban Market: Survival Strategies and Economic Opportunities for Single Women in French Provincial Towns (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries)....Pages 50-68
Maids, Noblewomen, Journeymen, State Officials, and Others: Unmarried Adults in Four Swedish Towns, 1750–1855....Pages 69-92
Destitute in December: Unmarried Scots Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861....Pages 93-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Desperately Seeking the Single Man in Later Medieval England....Pages 117-137
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....Pages 138-157
“Why did she not live with her husband and how was she able to support herself?” Grass Widow Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Bruges....Pages 158-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Single Life in Fifteenth-Century Bruges: Living Arrangements and Material Culture at the Fringes of Urban Society....Pages 179-202
Single People and the Material Culture of the English Urban Home in the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 203-223
Rich, Male and Single: The Consumption Practices of Edward Leigh, 1742–86....Pages 224-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-260