Book of Donmon Teith

In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The ess

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

To be labeled "of ill repute" in medieval society implied that a person had committed a violation of accepted standards and had stepped beyond the bounds of per

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