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Record Number:
46058
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Title:
Illegal Prostitution in London
Source:
The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky. University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 255 - 257.
Description:
The extract from this text concerns Elizabeth Moring who employed young women as embroiderers and also obligated them to work as prostitutes.
Article Type:
Translation
Subject
(See Also)
:
Houses of Prostitution
London, England
Prostitutes
Sexual Division of Labor
Women's Workshops
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
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Abstract:
Related Resources:
The text is from Memorials of London and London Life in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries: Being a Series of Extracts, Local, Social, and Political, from the Early Archives of the City of London, A.D. 1276-1419, trans. Henry Thomas Riley (Longmans, 1868), pp. 484-86.
Author's Affiliation:
Washington State University [Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow]
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2020.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9781487506124 (hbk); 9781487524128 (pbk); 9781487533342 (ePub); 9781487533335 (PDF)