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- The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
- The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Demographic, Archaeological and Socioeconomic Approaches
- Being Single in the Roman World
- Singles in Judaism
- Late Antique Christianity: The Rise of the Ideal of Being Single
- Comparative Voices
- Chapter 17 Celibacy and Sexual Abstinence in Early Islam*
- Chapter 18 To Marry or Not to Marry in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Cities, with Antwerp and Bruges as Case Studies*
- Chapter 19 Singleness in Nineteenth-century Italy: Permanent Celibacy and Solitariness between Coercion and Free Choice
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
Chapter 19 - Singleness in Nineteenth-century Italy: Permanent Celibacy and Solitariness between Coercion and Free Choice
from Comparative Voices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2019
- The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
- The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Demographic, Archaeological and Socioeconomic Approaches
- Being Single in the Roman World
- Singles in Judaism
- Late Antique Christianity: The Rise of the Ideal of Being Single
- Comparative Voices
- Chapter 17 Celibacy and Sexual Abstinence in Early Islam*
- Chapter 18 To Marry or Not to Marry in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Cities, with Antwerp and Bruges as Case Studies*
- Chapter 19 Singleness in Nineteenth-century Italy: Permanent Celibacy and Solitariness between Coercion and Free Choice
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
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- The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World , pp. 362 - 373Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019