Comment by voyeur324 on 30/03/2024 at 04:54 UTC*

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View submission: how did medieval single women live?

/u/sunagainstgold studies this sort of thing.

See this answer about beguines[1] and this thread about non-family support networks for medieval women.[2]

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8uvgwc/ive_asked_this_in_2015_and_i_feel_like_i_should/e1khehd/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/buxq0u/lets_say_a_young_person_in_late_medievalvery/

What happened to medieval unwed mothers?

Question about widows and other rich women joining convents

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ei5ffs/comment/fcp1wfi/

No woman is an island.

More remains to be written.

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