![]() ![]() Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. ![]() 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.ĭespite 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 neglected. ![]() When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families-married couples and their children. ![]()
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