Bishop, Prioress, and Bawd in the Stews of Southwark
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Bishop, Prioress, and Bawd in the Stews of Southwark
- Published
- Speculum 75: 342-88, 2000.
- Description
- There is little or no archival or topographical evidence to suggest that the Prioress's convent of St. Leonard's Priory in Stratford-at-Bow profited from houses of prostitution in Southwark. Bordellos existed along the Thames (and were duly taxed and fined), but St. Leonard's profits (and those of other religious institutions with property in the area) came from legitimate rent and raising fish. Kelly examines meanings of the word "stew" and its variants.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.