Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture
- Author / Editor
- Karras, Ruth Mazo.
Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture
- Published
- Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 201-16.
- Description
- Karras surveys depictions of female commercialized sex in the English late Middle Ages. It is difficult, she suggests, to separate kinds and degrees of prostitution, because prostitution was regarded as an "extreme case" of the general sinfulness of female sexuality. Chaucerian examples include the Wife of Bath and the wives in ShT, CkT, and ManT.
- Alternative Title
- Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.