Single life and the city, 1200-1900. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Julie de Groot (University of Antwerp), Isabelle Devos (University of Ghent), and Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden University).
• Editors: Groot, Julie de, 1988-; Devos, Isabelle; Schmidt, Ariadne, 1972-
• Contents: 1. Working Alone? : Single Women in the Urban Economy of Late Medieval Flanders (Thirteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries) / Peter Stabel -- 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) / Anne Montenach -- 3. Maids, Noblewomen, Journeymen, State Officials, and Others : Unmarried Adults in Four Swedish Towns, 1750-1855 / Dag Lindstrom -- 4. Destitute in December : Unmarried Scots Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861 / Wendy M. Gordon -- 5. Desperately Seeking the Single Man in Later Medieval England / P.J.P. Goldberg -- 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 / Kim Overlaet -- 7. "Why did she not live with her husband and how was she able to support herself?" : Grass Widow Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Bruges / Maja Mechant -- 8. Single Life in Fifteenth-Century Bruges : Living Arrangements and Material Culture at the Fringes of Urban Society / Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot and Isis Sturtewagen -- 9. Single People and the Material Culture of the English Urban Home in the Long Eighteenth Century / David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby -- 10. Rich, Male and Single : The Consumption Practices of Edward Leigh, 1742-1786 / Jon Stobart.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.81/5; Social sciences; Single people -- Europe, Western -- History; Single people -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions; City and town life -- Europe, Western -- History; Single men -- Europe, Western -- History; Single women -- Europe, Western -- History; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Social History; City and town life; Manners and customs; Single men; Single people; Single people -- Social conditions; Single women; Social conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; History -- Social History; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Modern -- General; Social & cultural history; European history; History: earliest times to present day; Sociology; Social history; History, Modern; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Europe, Western -- Social conditions; Europe, Western -- Social life and customs; Europe, Western; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137406408; 1137406402
• Related ISBNs: 9781349572465; 1349572462; 9781137406392; 1137406399
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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