The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam free ebook download.

Home : Book details

The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 621
Likes: 160

Catalogue

Author(s):	Lotte van de Pol

Date:	2011-03-31	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	019921140X
Pages:	269	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	maveriks	Upload Date:	5/5/2020 8:30:25 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

The Burgher and the Whore is a story of dark lanes and meagre earnings. For Amsterdam and its inhabitants, prostitution has been a clearly present and much-discussed problem for centuries: a necessary evil because of the large numbers of dissolute seamen in the city. Amsterdam's reputation as a city of prostitutes is age old. It has been current since the Middle Ages and by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was no longerpossible to write it off as a marginal phenomenon. The city was crawling with whores, madams, procurers and brothels. Prostitution was a flourishing profession which also employed washerwomen, servants, drink suppliers, doormen and musicians. Lotte van de Pol draws on a range of unusualsources, such as travel descriptions, brothel guidebooks, sea shanties and paintings, as well as prisoners' confessions and transcripts from the trials of thousands of prostitutes. She gives clear, insightful descriptions of these women in all their colourful diversity, the customers who came from far and wide, the moralists, the administrators, the doctors, the bailiffs, the judges and the governors of the spinning houses. Offering more than just a picturesquedescription of prostitutes and their customers in early modern Holland, The Burgher and the Whore brings to life the relationships between men and women in the Dutch Republic and provides a fascinating account of what it was like to inhabit the greatest city of its day.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
2774738	Book	https://nitroflare.com/view/ABA1E5771C45...		1.22	maveriks

Tags: Amsterdam Early Modern Prostitution Whore

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: