![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Yet, almost no attention has been paid to how this significant part of the late medieval urban population arranged their living. Late medieval cities, with their high levels of migration, specific economic and commercial infrastructure and relatively liberal juridical positions for women 2 were home to many unmarried people. Moreover, some people never married at all. 1 One of the most important characteristics of the (West) European Marriage Pattern was the high age at marriage for both men and women, which meant that they retained their single status for a longer period of time. Unlike the complex “joint” and “stem” household systems which prevailed in southern Europe, most households in north-western Europe were neo-local and nuclear in structure, ideally existing of a conjugal family with their child(ren) as its basic core, with or without live-in apprentices and servants. ![]()
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