Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late‐Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities

Based in archival research from Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia and Palermo, this article argues for a reconsideration of the gendering of the medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on prostitutes and their movement to and from Mediterranean port cities and queries how they used the institutions of the l...

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Published in:Gender & history 2022-07, Vol.34 (2), p.401-419
Main Author: McDonough, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archival research
Cities
Courts
Middle Ages
Migration
Prostitution
Sex workers
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Summary:Based in archival research from Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia and Palermo, this article argues for a reconsideration of the gendering of the medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on prostitutes and their movement to and from Mediterranean port cities and queries how they used the institutions of the law courts and the notariat to integrate themselves into the everyday workings of the city. The article concludes with a call to rethink whose movement counts in the medieval Mediterranean when scholars think of the region as a whole.
ISSN:0953-5233
1468-0424
DOI:10.1111/1468-0424.12574