Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social an

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In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues t

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