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Book 1998

Common Women

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Published
1998
  • Social conditions
  • History
  • Social history
  • Prostitution
  • Prostitutes
  • Prostitution, great britain
  • Great britain, social conditions
  • Sex

This chapter approaches medieval understandings of feminine sexuality by looking at what different jurisdictions thought they were regulating when they legislated about whoredom, and how and why they attempted to control it.