Carnal commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome / Tessa Storey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storey, Tessa.

Contributor:

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Series:

New studies in European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Italy--Rome--History--16th century.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--Italy--Rome--History--17th century.

Prostitutes--Italy--Rome--Social conditions--16th century.

Prostitutes.

Prostitutes--Italy--Rome--Social conditions--17th century.

Social conditions.

History.

Italy--Rome.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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.

Contents:

1 Themes and issues in literature and image 25

2 The social and cultural context 57

3 Debating prostitution 67

4 Policing prostitution 95

5 A profile of Roman prostitutes 115

6 Becoming a prostitute 139

7 The business of prostitution 162

8 At home 188

9 'Because we are all made of flesh and blood': prostitutes and their clients 213

Conclusion: Continuity and change: prostitution after the Reformations 234

Appendix 1 Origins of prostitutes living in Rome 252

Appendix 2 Notes on the registers consulted from the Archivio del Vicariato di Roma 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521844338

0521844339

OCLC:

195618353

Publisher Number:

99940908361