Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of
humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to
the profession's social and cultural meanings across time periods,
little has been written about literary representations of
prostitution. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
analyses the work of writers from an array of social positions,
including courtly poets and even religious writers, dealing with
the topic during the medieval and early modern periods. Its study
shows that prostitutes and brothel owners were present on the
literary stage far more often than we might have assumed. Utilizing
an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating relevant sources
from across the entire European continent dating from the early
Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, it examines the phenomenon of
prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to
which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower
classes.
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