Of Good And Ill Repute

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019510949X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Good and Ill Repute written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.

Author : Maria Serena Mazzi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228002095
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Ill Repute written by Maria Serena Mazzi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319474
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures of Ill Repute written by Charles Bernheimer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.

Author : George Crabb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Synonyms Explained written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Crabb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book English Synonyms Explained in Alphabetical Order written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019049042X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ceremony and Civility written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population-only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens-and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and ceremony played key roles in this acculturation process. In Ceremony and Civility, Barbara A. Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle Ages, London's elected officials and elites used ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy and power. In a society in which hierarchical authority was most commonly determined by inheritance of title and office, or sanctified by ordination, civic officials who had been elected to their posts relied on rituals to cement their authority and dominance. Elections and inaugurations had to be very public and visually distinct in order to quickly communicate with the masses: the robes of office needed to distinguish the officers so that everyone would know who they were. The result was a colorful civic pageantry. Newcomers found their places within this structure in various ways. Apprentices entering the city to take up a trade were educated in civic culture by their masters. Gilds similarly used rituals, oath swearing, and distinctive livery to mark their members' belonging. But these public shows of belonging and orderly civic life also had a dark side. Those who rebelled against authority and broke the civic ordinances were made spectacles through ritual humiliations and public parades through the streets so that others could take heed of these offenders of the law. An accessible look at late medieval London through the lens of civic ceremonies and dispute resolution, Ceremony and Civility synthesizes archival research with existing scholarship to show how an ever-shifting population was enculturated into premodern London.

Author : Kate Kelsey Staples
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004203117
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of London written by Kate Kelsey Staples and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.

Author : Douglas Craven Phillott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colloquial English-Persian Dictionary in the Roman Character written by Douglas Craven Phillott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
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Download or read book Surepeme Court Appellate Division- First Department Papers On Appeal written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1046 pages
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