Single Life and the City 1200–1900

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

Chapter 2 Working Alone? Single Women in the Urban Economy of Late Medieval Flanders (Thirteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries)

Chapter 3 Creating a Space for Themselves on the Urban Market: Survival Strategies and Economic Opportunities for Single Women in French Provincial Towns (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries)

Chapter 4 Maids, Noblewomen, Journeymen, State Officials, and Others: Unmarried Adults in Four Swedish Towns, 1750–1855

Chapter 5 Destitute in December: Unmarried Scots Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861

Chapter 6 Desperately Seeking the Single Man in Later Medieval England

Chapter 8 “Why did she not live with her husband and how was she able to support herself?” Grass Widow Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Bruges

Chapter 9 Single Life in Fifteenth-Century Bruges: Living Arrangements and Material Culture at the Fringes of Urban Society

Chapter 10 Single People and the Material Culture of the English Urban Home in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 11 Rich, Male and Single: The Consumption Practices of Edward Leigh, 1742–86