To browse Academia. This article takes a closer look at the social background and the material culture of an understudied kind of medieval brothel, the private 'stew'. Just as in late medieval England, this was the most common type of brothel in the towns of the Southern Low Countries, where in towns like Bruges, Leuven and Brussels, public brothels were very rare. The fifteenth-century lease contracts of private stews, studied in detail here,. Janna Coomans.
Jelle Haemers. Christopher Mielke. Sex work in the Middle Ages could occur at an official city brothel, at a bathhouse, in a private residence, or on certain streets. While the locations of municipal brothels are known in five cities from medieval Hungary, little has been discussed about other sites of prostitution.
The first part of this paper aims to better understand what kind of women interacted with bathhouses in the Kingdom of Hungary and determine if there is any link between the city brothels. The second aspect explored will be using etymological history to understand the geographic links between brothels, bathhouses, and streets associated with sex work in medieval Hungarian cities.
Emily C Adams. Michelle A Laughran. Particularly for reference by my students in the Honors Program and in my methodology courses, this is my Senior History Honors Thesis from the College of William and Mary.
Kathryn Reyerson. Erik Spindler. Saundra Weddle. Prior, J. Jason Prior. Brief overview of public bathing in the west from the Middle ages through to the present, focusing on the role that baths played as a site of sexual pleasure. Freja J Brown.
