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/library/oar/handle/123456789/136798| Title: | [Book review] Public women : prostitute entrepreneurs in Valletta, 1630-1798 |
| Authors: | Ciappara, Frans |
| Keywords: | Books -- Reviews Church work with prostitutes -- Malta -- Valletta -- Catholic Church -- History Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Malta -- Valletta -- History Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Malta -- Valletta -- History Women -- Institutional care -- Malta -- Valletta -- History Women -- Malta -- Valletta -- Social conditions |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. International Institute for Baroque Studies |
| Citation: | Ciappara, F. (2020). [Book review] Public women : prostitute entrepreneurs in Valletta, 1630-1798. Journal of Baroque Studies, 2(4), 228-231. |
| Abstract: | Tighter regulations on prostitution was one of the avowed aims of the Counter-Reformation. In the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth century, successive Popes ratified harsh regulations shaming, banishing, punishing and confining prostitutes to restricted zones away from Rome's elite sociability. Notwithstanding escalating papal commands prostitution in Rome persisted and flourished. Hospitaller Valletta was similar to Rome in being a city largely dominated by a culture of chaste but worldly men. It was likewise perceived to be a 'city of sin'. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136798 |
| ISSN: | 25207016 |
| Appears in Collections: | JBS, Volume 2, No. 4 (2020) |
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