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Single Life and the City 1200-1900

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introduction Single and the City: Men and Women Alone in North-Western European Towns since the Late Middle Ages

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About this book

By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes out the particularities of urban singles and allows for a better understanding of the attitudes and values underlying this lifestyle in the European past.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Antwerp, Belgium

    Julie Groot

  • Ghent University, Belgium

    Isabelle Devos

  • Leiden University, Netherlands

    Ariadne Schmidt

About the editors

Julie De Groot is Member of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO). She is working on a doctoral project on the meaning, use and decoration of domestic spaces in cities of the Southern Low Countries and France during the long sixteenth century.

Isabelle Devos is Associate Professor at the History Department of Ghent University, Belgium, and specializes in social and economic history. She is a historian and demographer.

Ariadne Schmidt is Assistant Professor at Leiden University, Netherlands. Her research interests include the early modern history of work, labour markets, gender and crime. She is a social and economic historian.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Single Life and the City 1200-1900

  • Editors: Julie Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137406408

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40639-2Published: 16 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40640-8Published: 23 July 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 260

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Social History, European History, Modern History

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