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

Baatsen, Inneke; Groot, Julie De; Sturtewagen, Isis

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“…Apart from the pioneering work of David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby and some sections in other volumes predominantly about the English case, 62 our knowledge about how unmarried people actually lived is still very limited, especially for the Low Countries. 63 Furthermore, single men and women did not have a spouse and were, therefore, alone-according to the legal definition. The question is, however, did they also live alone?…”

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Introduction. Unmarried and Unknown

Devos

Schmidt

Groot

2015

Journal of Urban History

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This essay introduces a special issue on The Lure of the City that examines the attraction of towns to unmarried men and women in the Low Countries during the early modern period and the nineteenth century. The issue has the relation between singles and cities as its main focus. Singles were present in disproportionately large numbers in urban areas, but the question is why? This essay sets out the historiographical framework for the contributions in the issue, discusses the sources and methodologies used, and provides a brief overview of the evolution of singleness in the Low Countries. The contributions all demonstrate the relevance of a comparative approach. It is revealed that towns and cities not only attracted but also created singles, that they offered different opportunities for different groups of unmarried people and that they affected men and women differently. Finally, it appears that not every town and city was attractive to men and women without a spouse.

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Introduction. Unmarried and Unknown

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Groot

2015

Journal of Urban History

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The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

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Laes²

2019

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What's in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach* Christian Laes  A 'Marriage' between Philology and Social History Raised in the rich and established tradition of Altertumswissenschaft, classicists and ancient historians are used to working with concepts and terms, the exact definition of which can be traced down by means of encyclopaedias, lexica and dictionaries. Rem tene, verba sequentur. Only after having searched for accurate definitions can one safely proceed with the research topic. In such a context, the very first thing to do in a volume on The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World would be to look for what is meant precisely when we use the word 'single', then to search for Greek and Latin terms matching this definition (and in a comparative perspective also words in other well attested languages of the ancient Mediterranean such as Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic), and finally to carefully study the text fragments where such words show up. Though this task may appear both manageable and straightforward, things are not as simple as they appear at first sight. First, the present-day concept. There is at least a certain ambiguity in the use of terms. Derived from the Old French sengle, which in its turn stems from the Latin singuli, the word 'single' refers to a person not married, or not having an exclusive relationship with someone.  Nowadays, most Germanic languages have taken over the English term, while words such as alleinstehend (German) or alleenstaand (Dutch) connote the condition of living alone or even loneliness. Indeed, the word 'single' has become increasingly popular as an untranslated term in many languages. * I am most grateful to John Martens (University of St Thomas-Minnesota) for his careful reading and improving of my English text.  It would make little sense to encumber this chapter with references to dictionaries for each language concerned. Suffice it to notice that I have made use of well-established dictionaries for each language concerned. For Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, I kindly acknowledge the help of Malika Dekkiche

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What’s in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach*

Laes¹

2019

The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

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

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Introduction. Unmarried and Unknown

Introduction. Unmarried and Unknown

The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

What’s in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach*

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