Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9302
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Lacarra Lanz , Eukene.
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  • Title: Changing Boundaries of Licit and Illicit Unions: Concubinage and Prostitution [The author provides an historical overview of concubinage and prostitution. Topics discussed include Church views, efforts to distinguish "honest" women from dishonest ones, municipal brothels, legalization of prostitution, and the economics of prostitution. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Hispanic Issues, Volume 26.  Edited by Eukene Lacarra Lanz.  Routledge, 2002.  Pages 158 - 194.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Concubines Economics Houses of Prostitution Law Prostitutes Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: General
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of the Basque Country
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  • Year of Publication: 2002.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0415936349