Albrecht Classen, . Studies in Medieval Literature. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books, 2019, 237 p.
3 Seiten
Open Access
Journal:
Mediaevistik
Band 32
Ausgabe 1
Jahr 2020
pp. 267 - 269
Zusammenfassung
As this book notes wryly, sex sells well, and the related topic of prostitution has also had its related impact in scholarly literature, even of the premodern era. However, the author also observes a “curious lacuna”—how has prostitution been represented in literary texts? By whom, for what reasons, and for what purposes have these narratives been employed? And what can they tell us about the history of
Details
- Seiten
- 3
- DOI
- 10.3726/med.2019.01.21