Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England by Ruth Mazo Karras
Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

Ruth Mazo Karras

Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

Ruth Mazo Karras

232 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understandin...

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