A Life of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages by Maria Serena Maz

Description: A Life of Ill Repute by Maria Serena Mazzi The life of prostitutes in medieval European society. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Prostitution is often called the oldest profession in the world. Even in the Middle Ages, people believed that there would always be women willing to use their bodies for profit. But who were these women who offered themselves up to men? In A Life of Ill Repute Maria Serena Mazzi traces and reconstructs prostitution in the early fourteenth century, describing how in medieval European society women - often extremely poor and overwhelmed by debt, or victims either of predatory men full of duplicitous intentions or simply of rape - were traded as commodities. Prostitutes, according to Mazzi, were despised and condemned but considered necessary in an ambiguous and contradictory society that tolerated their sexual exploitation to safeguard the virtue of honest women and counter the vice of homosexuality, while allowing men to vent their own impulses. The theory of the lesser evil - encouraged by both the church and the state - is the grounds on which prostitution flourished in medieval Europe. In the Middle Ages prostitution was censured and considered disgraceful, but at the same time it was deemed inevitable and even necessary. A Life of Ill Repute uncovers the hypocrisy and speciousness of ecclesiastical, political, and social arguments for the justification of the existence of public prostitution. Author Biography Maria Serena Mazzi is former professor of medieval history at the Universities of Florence and Ferrara. Promotional The life of prostitutes in medieval European society. Promotional "Headline" The life of prostitutes in medieval European society. Details ISBN0228001544 Author Maria Serena Mazzi Short Title LIFE OF ILL REPUTE Pages 176 Publisher McGill-Queens University Press Language English ISBN-10 0228001544 ISBN-13 9780228001546 Format Paperback Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-03-19 Subtitle Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages UK Release Date 2020-03-19 Imprint McGill-Queens University Press Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada Alternative 9780228001539 DEWEY 306.7409/02 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161790232;

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