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Jacques Rossiaud; trans. Lydia G. Cochrane.
Medieval Prostitution.
Published Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988 (Italian edn. was 1984).
Series: Family, Sexuality & Social Relations in Past Times.
ISBN 0631151419;
ISBN-13: 9780631151418.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x233x22mm.
Page count: ix,213pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit yellowed with age, but a previous owner has enclosed it in protective cellophane, so not too heavily worn; page edges starting to fox, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 495g.

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Emphasis mainly on French material.

Contents: Urban prostitution; Sexual order & subversion of youth; Victims, procuresses & prostitutes; Prostitution & society; Relaxation in social mores — legalization of the whore; Theological support for the act of creation; Visions of the parousia; ‘Cult of the good time’ & theme of the compassionate Christ; Urban disorder & preaching missions — poverty, penitence & mortification of the flesh; Prostitution as mirror image of the city.
Appendices: Evolution of mores & literary translations — Quarrel of the Roman de la Rose; Documents.

Illustrations: illustrated endpapers
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes 

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