@Book{821424807,
title="Single life and the city, 1200-1900",
year="2015",
publisher="Palgrave Macmillan",
address="Houndmills",
keywords="Single people; Europe, Western; History; Social conditions; City and town life; Single men; Single women; Social life and customs",
contents="1. Working Alone? : Single Women in the Urban Economy of Late Medieval Flanders (Thirteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries) Peter Stabel2. Creating a Space for Themselves on the Urban Market : Survival Strategies and Economic Opportunities for Single Women in French Provincial Towns (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Anne Montenach",
abstract="``Today, singleness is often represented as a new and increasingly popular lifestyle, particularly in the city. However, single people crowded European towns from the late middle ages onward. This book discusses the living conditions of women and men living without a spouse in cities in western Europe, and reflects on differences and similarities in the past. Throughout the volume, singles' lives are examined via a continuum of lenses ranging from labour and social activities to living arrangements and material culture. The collection provides some of the first comparisons of single men and women and sheds light on new groups of single women, such as beguines, prostitutes and heads of households. Not only do the singles portrayed in this book emphasize the diversity of their experiences, they also call stereotypes into question. By providing fresh approaches and evidence to the study of singles in the urban past, the authors assembled here move the field forward and profitably expand the lens of marital status''--",
note="[edited by] Julie de Groot (University of Antwerp), Isabelle Devos (University of Ghent), and Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden University)",
note="Includes bibliographical references",
isbn="9781137406392",
language="English"
}