{"title":"Jacques Rossiaude","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"medieval-prostitution-book-jacques-rossiaude-9780760701195","title":"Medieval Prostitution","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and M nica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance, appropriation, and reception over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the evolving form of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E. B. Du Bois's \u003cem\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/em\u003e, G. H. Mead's \u003cem\u003eMind, Self, and Society\u003c\/em\u003e, and Karl Marx's 1844 \u003cem\u003eEconomic and Philosophic Manuscripts\u003c\/em\u003e, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making these books involved many hands. They explore what publishers, editors, translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the reading public new versions of the works under consideration, examine debates about the intended meaning of the works and discussions over their present relevance, and elucidate the various ways in which content and material form are interwoven. In doing so, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a work's disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and political significance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of the Book \u003c\/em\u003eradically changes our understanding of what doing social and political theory--and its history--implies. 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The explanation of this remarkable state of affairs is one topic covered in this book, which reconstructs a part of medieval society that has previously received relatively little attention. Drawing upon research in medieval archives, the author shows that most 15th-century Frenchwomen could expect a life of constant subjugation to male desire. Rape was common and considered a minor crime. He then considers whether public prostitution might paradoxically have been seen by the secular and religious authorities as a means of social control, and of preserving marital stability: the virtue of wives and daughters was best protected by the existence of public brothels, where sexual urges could be satisfied without adultery and rape. The book describes the social background of the prostitutes, brothel-keepers, pimps and their clientele, showing that for many of those involved in it prostitution was an acceptable occupation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355392348433,"sku":"CIN0631151419G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0631151419.jpg?v=1751293966"},{"product_id":"medieval-prostitution-book-jacques-rossiaude-9780631199922","title":"Medieval Prostitution","description":"In 15th-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but were often its principal beneficiaries, owning and frequenting brothels quite openly. The explanation of this remarkable state of affairs is just one aspect of this book's reconstruction of a part of medieval society that has previously received little attention. Drawing upon extensive research in medieval archives, this book shows that most 15th-century Frenchwomen could expect a life of constant subjugation to male desire. Rape, for instance, was common and considered only a minor crime. It then considers whether public prostitution might paradoxically have been seen by the secular and religious authorities as a means of social control, and of preserving marital stability: the virtue of wives and daughters was best protected by the existence of public brothels, where sexual urges could be satisfied without adultery or rape. Jacques Rossiaud also describes the social background of the prostitutes, brothel-keepers, pimps and their clientele, providing an overview of the context in which medieval prostitution existed. 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