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050	0	4	_aHQ115 _b.L544 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMazzi, Maria Serena, _e1
245	1	0	_aA life of ill repute : _bpublic prostitution in the Middle Ages / _cMaria Serena Mazzi ; translated by Joyce Myerson.
260			_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 160 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
500			_aTranslated from the Italian.
500			_aTranslation of: La mala vita: donne publiche nel Medioevo.
504			_a1
520	0		_a"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 bodies for profit. But who were these women who offered themselves up to men? In A Life of Ill Repute Maria Serena Mazzi traces and reconstructs prostitution in the early fourteenth century, describing how in medieval European society women--often extremely poor and overwhelmed by debt, or victims either of predatory men full of duplicitous intentions or simply of rape - traded as commodities. Prostitutes, according to Mazzi, were despised and condemned but considered necessary in an ambiguous and contradictory society that tolerated their sexual exploitation to safeguard the virtue of honest women and counter the vice of homosexuality, while allowing men to vent their own impulses. The theory of the lesser evil -encouraged by both the church and the state - is the grounds on which prostitution flourished in medieval Europe. In the Middle Ages prostitution was censured and considered disgraceful, but at the same time it was deemed inevitable and even necessary. A Life of Ill Repute uncovers the hypocrisy and speciousness of ecclesiastical, political, and social arguments for the justification of the existence of public prostitution."-- _cProvided by publisher
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aProstitution _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aProstitution _xSocial aspects _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aProstitutes _xHistory _yTo 1500.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aMyerson, Joyce, _etrl
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2378082&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell