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Books on: prostitution middle ages

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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages

Book by Edelgard E. DuBruck, Barbara I. Gusick; Peter Lang, 1999

Subjects:

Art, Medieval, Civilization, Medieval, Death In Art, Death In Literature, Death--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Death--Social Aspects--History, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Death and Dying in the Middle Ages Studies in the Humanities Literature...Canterbury Death and Dying in the Middle Ages E D I T E D B Y Edelgard E...CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Death and dying in the Middle Ages/ Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara...
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Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Book by Kathleen Coyne Kelly; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Christian Hagiography--History--To 1500, Christianity And Literature--Europe--History--To 1500, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Romances--History And Criticism, Virginity In Literature, Virginity--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The concept of virginity is developed across a number of discourses in the Middle Ages, including patristic writings and literary texts. This book explores the representations of virginity in these discourses to show its significance.
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English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages

Book by H. Leith Spencer; Clarendon Press, 1993

Subjects:

England--Church History--1066-1485, England--Religious Life And Customs, Preaching--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This interdisciplinary study of English sermons written in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries focuses on material recorded in English and relates the surviving texts to their historical and cultural background. H. Leith Spencer shows how the use of the vernacular to explore ideas hitherto ...
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This interdisciplinary study of English sermons written in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries focuses on material recorded in English and relates the surviving texts to their historical and cultural background. H. Leith Spencer shows how the use of the vernacular to explore ideas hitherto expressed in Latin anticipated the better-known developments of the sixteenth century. His detailed and original study, drawing on the most up-to-date research, uncovers the pluralism of the medieval English church that anti-heretical legislation and Reformed propaganda sought to deny.
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Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Studies in Honor of Louis Pascoe

Book by Thomas M. Izbicki, Christopher M. Bellitto; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Church History--Modern Period, 1500-, Reformation, Religious Thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Religious Thought--Modern Period, 1500-

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

REFORM AND RENEWAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN...BELLITTO REFORM AND RENEWAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE Louis B...J. REFORM AND RENEWAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE STUDIES...
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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

Book by Sharon Farmer, Carol Braun Pasternack; University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Subjects:

Civilization, Medieval, Sex Differences--Philosophy--History, Sex Role--History--To 1500, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500, Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...in the High and late Middle Ages womens spirituality...England the regulation of prostitution applied one standard...in The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome...Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1982), 110...

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Journal Articles on: prostitution middle ages

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Feminine Semiotics and Masculine Desires: Courtois d'Arras and the Proper Male Reader in the Middle Ages

Journal article by Andrew Cowell; Symposium, Vol. 50, 1996

Subjects:

Philology, Modern

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Fortuna in the Middle Ages, and Fortuna...imbrication of prostitution, poetry, dice...in the earlier Middle Ages. In this case...unique in the Middle Ages, the tavern frames...adornment and prostitution. The medieval...
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The New Sense of Utopia: The Construction of a Society Based on Justice

Journal article by Arrigo Colombo; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000

Subjects:

Heresies and heretics--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Justice--Social aspects, Messianism--Social aspects, Revolutions--Social aspects, Utopias--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...play, such as organized crime which hounds businessmen and entrepreneurs, petty crime lying perpetually in wait, drags and prostitution which plague certain districts, the invasion of immigrants (as they are regarded, unfortunately). The fear even penetrates...
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Women as Perpetrators: Does Motherhood Have a Reformative Effect on Prostitution?

Journal article by Lynne Marie Kohm; Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2006

Subjects:

Adoption--Evaluation, Motherhood--Influence, Prostitution--Research, Social science research--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...supra note 44, at 415 ("Most enter prostitution between the ages of 14 and 16. Some 70 to 80 percent...habit keeps her on the streets. She ages quickly."). (62.) Carole Pateman, Defending Prostitution: Charges Against Ericsson, 93 ETHICS...
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Suicide and Prostitution among Street Youth: A Qualitative Analysis

Journal article by Sean A. Kidd, Michael J. Kral; Adolescence, Vol. 37, 2002

Subjects:

Homeless persons--Psychological aspects, Prostitution, Juvenile--Research, Sexually abused teenagers--Psychological aspects, Suicidal behavior--Research

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...The researcher worldview is that of a middle-class, white, heterosexual male. Conducting...had been or were currently involved in prostitution (74% of the males and 60% of the females...such as attempt rate, involvement in prostitution, and other demographics. The results...
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Anti-Prostitution Zones: Justifications for Abolition

Journal article by Sandra L. Moser; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 91, 2001

Subjects:

Feminist jurisprudence--Analysis, Freedom of association--Laws, regulations, etc., Probation--Laws, regulations, etc., Prostitution--Laws, regulations, etc., Zoning law--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...5) Robin Benedick, Lauderdale Wants Soap to Clean Prostitution Zones, SUN-SENTINEL, Nov. 8, 1995, at 1B. (6) Tom...citing LEONA C. GABEL, BENEFIT OF CLERGY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. 14, Nos. 1...

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Magazine Articles on: prostitution middle ages

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Closed Doors and Childhoods Lost: Many Experts Believe Cases of Child Pornography and Prostitution Are on the Rise. Sometimes Prosecutors Focus on the Victims Rather Than on the Perpetrators

Magazine article by Brandon Spun; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, January 28, 2002

Subjects:

Child pornography--Investigations, Child sexual abuse--Investigations, Estes, Richard--Reports, Prostitutes--Personal narratives, Prostitution--Investigations, Weiner, Neil Alan--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...prostitutes (CPs) are from middle- and working-class families...were abused between the ages of 3 and 16; less than...accounts for 20 percent of prostitution; 85-90 percent of arrests...johns are between the ages of 25 and 39; * 68...With the Washington Prostitution Unit Detective Mark...
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Physical Culture: Boxing, Karaoke, Prostitution - One-Stop Shopping in the New China

Magazine article by Jason Overdorf; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, October 2000

Subjects:

Boxing--China

Collections: Entire Library

...had dispensed with gambling in favor of prostitution, its only security guard had been Old...Guard duty entailed waking up in the middle of the night when clients banged on the...bodyguard. About thirty young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five were smoking...
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Suffer the Little Children ..

Magazine article by Al J. Venter, Pat Lancaster; The Middle East, May 2000

Subjects:

International Labor Organization

Collections: Entire Library

...pressure. A UN spokesman in New York told The Middle East: "Sanctions are blunt instruments...that 3.3 million children between the ages of five and 14 were working full time...continent are bonded labour and child prostitution. While there are laws for tackling the...
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Regulating the Global Brothel

Magazine article by Leah Platt; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, July 2, 2001

Subjects:

Immigrants--Employment, Prostitutes--Employment, Prostitution--Laws, regulations, etc., Sex oriented businesses--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...is no legal way for a woman from outside the EU to work in prostitution." Sex workers are also specifically excluded from the immigration...to work in legal places, where they have been condoned for ages, they are forced to leave or to work in an illegal setting...
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DynCorp Still Taking the Moral Low Ground

Magazine article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, September 2, 2002

Subjects:

Bolkovac, Kathryn--Cases, Business consultants--Cases, DynCorp--Cases, Employee dismissals--Cases, Johnston, Ben--Cases, Prostitution--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...Johnstons case included allegations of such sordid behavior as middle-age men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds and a DynCorp supervisor...who actually videotaped himself having sex with two females (ages undisclosed). The supervisor never faced criminal charges despite...

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Newspaper Articles on: prostitution middle ages

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A Busker's Racket Is Just What Covent Garden Needs

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 2, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...have triedworking a couple of centuries ago. In the Middle Ages, London street life offered a famously chaotic panorama...coarse and vulgar" language, obscene wordplay andopen prostitution were common features of Londons street life. On everycorner...
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The Tricks of a Worldwide Trade

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 9, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...slices of bread and a handful of wild herbs. In the Middle Ages convents sometimes doubled as brothels - both were...at the way that economic and political forces drive prostitution just as surely as they do farming or IT. For the...
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High Court Backs Asset Confiscation: Man's Indiscretion Cost Wife Her Car

Newspaper article by Frank J. Murray; The Washington Times, March 5, 1996

Subjects:

Rehnquist, William H.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Stevens called it "blatant unfairness" that employed Middle Ages logic and ignored realities "simply because an illicit...police to seize and sell a car or other property used in prostitution, regardless of ownership. In another case, a rented...
4.

Dick Morris' Platonic Relationship?

Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, September 10, 1996

Subjects:

Morris, Dick

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...courtesan sort? In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church...prostitutes are sex workers. Prostitution is no crime. I remember...municipal houses of prostitution now: socialist sex...land of virtue, is prostitution generally against the...
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Blood Libel Lives; Saudi Columnist Serves Up Hate

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 19, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...costumes and overindulge in drinking alcohol, prostitution and adultery." And now comes the "how...site, www.memri.org, which stands for the Middle East Media Research Institute, an independent...wars, which the West waged in the Middle Ages under the rallying cry of defending the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: prostitution middle ages

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Prostitution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...signifying their trade. In the Middle Ages prostitution flourished, and licensed brothels...efforts were begun to control prostitution. Brothels were closed throughout...proved unsuccessful in stopping prostitution, many cities instituted even...
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Nicholas, Saint

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Asia Minor. His relics were stolen from Myra in the Middle Ages and taken to Bari, Italy. St. Nicholas is the subject...daughters of a poor man and thus saving them from lives of prostitution. Later tradition transformed the bags into three gold...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...some extent, in prostitution. Most of the slaves...dominant theme in the Middle Ages, although domestic...disappeared by the later Middle Ages, although it still...parts of Asia, the Middle East, and, despite...Slavery through the Ages (1938); R. Coupland...
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International Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...therefore, with the rise of national states after the Middle Ages. Rules of maritime intercourse and rules respecting...of migrating bird and sea life, and suppression of prostitution. Resort to arbitration of disputes became more frequent...

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