Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • 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
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • 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]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487506124 (hbk); 9781487524128 (pbk); 9781487533342 (ePub); 9781487533335 (PDF)