A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval LifeDescribes the daily life of noblewomen, nuns, and peasants in feudal England and Europe, looks at the treatment of lepers, beggars, prostitutes, and criminals, and offers brief profiles of prominent medieval women. |
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... prostitutes who followed the royal armies and had the right to a fee of 5s a year from the Paris prostitutes . In token of this payment he marked with his signet the side of the hoods of those who had paid , and confiscated the hoods of ...
... prostitutes who followed the royal armies and had the right to a fee of 5s a year from the Paris prostitutes . In token of this payment he marked with his signet the side of the hoods of those who had paid , and confiscated the hoods of ...
Page 199
... prostitutes in the population . In Dijon , for example , where the population was less than 10,000 in the fifteenth century , despite its importance as the capital of the duchy of Burgundy , there appear to have been more than 100 ...
... prostitutes in the population . In Dijon , for example , where the population was less than 10,000 in the fifteenth century , despite its importance as the capital of the duchy of Burgundy , there appear to have been more than 100 ...
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... prostitutes or women vagabonds by forbidding them to stay in a location for more than one night and by laying an even heavier fine on anyone who kept such a woman over a longer time . 13 The most usual reasons for women becoming prostitutes ...
... prostitutes or women vagabonds by forbidding them to stay in a location for more than one night and by laying an even heavier fine on anyone who kept such a woman over a longer time . 13 The most usual reasons for women becoming prostitutes ...
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