Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome

by Tessa Storey

• ISBN13: 9780521844338
• ISBN10: 0521844339
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The aim of this series in early modern and modern European history is to publish outstanding works of research, addressed to important themes across a wide geographical range, from southern and central Europe, to Scandinavia and Russia, from the time of the Renaissance to the Second World War. As it develops, the series will comprise focused works of wide contextual range and intellectual ambition. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Notes on the text	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Themes and issues in literature and image	p. 25
The social and cultural context	p. 57
Debating prostitution	p. 67
Policing prostitution	p. 95
A profile of Roman prostitutes	p. 115
Becoming a prostitute	p. 139
The business of prostitution	p. 162
At home	p. 188
'Because we are all made of flesh and blood': prostitutes and their clients	p. 213
Conclusion: Continuity and change: prostitution after the Reformations	p. 234
Origins of prostitutes living in Rome	p. 252
Notes on the registers consulted from the Archivio del Vicariato di Roma	p. 256
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 290
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