NEW RELEASE
25 MARCH, 2025

Single women were a part of society in the Middle Ages, just as they are today, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that they that their lives were small and insignificant since they were often only included as appendages to their fathers or husbands. It just isn't so.

Single women could be young, unmarried girls under the age of 12 and in the care of their families.

Single women could be of marriageable age but not yet wed. Adults working at home or in service or in the fields for the lords or daughters of knights, rich and eligible enjoying all the things that high society had to offer without the burden of running a household or motherhood. They might be beggars or travellers.

Single women could be separated or divorced or widowed, perhaps working at a trade and enjoying a certain amount of freedom and autonomy. They might be working at the oldest trade of all.

Single women could be women of religion, living within the cloisters as a stop gap until marriage, an educational opportunity or as an escape from the outside world. Some embraced the religious life, while others did not.

Depending on her age and rank, these women had options, or not.

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