Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families--married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives.Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely…
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Weitere Autoren: Froide, Amy M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-1668-4
- EAN: 9780812216684
- Produktnummer: 19520521
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.3 cm 546 g
- Gewicht: 546
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Judith M. Bennett is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She is the author, most recently, of History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Amy M. Froide teaches history at Miami University of Ohio. She is completing a book on singlewomen in early modern England.
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