Tessa Storey

Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the daily lives and material culture of prostitutes and their clients in Rome, 1566-1656.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781107406575
• ISBN-10: 1107406579
• Artikelnr.: 35892273

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Themes and issues in literature and image
2. The social and cultural context
3. Debating prostitution
4. Policing prostitution
5. A profile of Roman prostitutes
6. Becoming a prostitute
7. The business of prostitution
8. At home
9. 'Because we are all of the flesh': prostitutes and their clients
Conclusion. Continuity and change: prostitution after the Reformations
Appendix 1. Origins of prostitutes living in Rome
Appendix 2. Notes on the registers consulted from the Archivo del Vicariato di Roma
Bibliography
Index.