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Senior Honors Thesis in History, College of William & Mary
"The Bankside stews: prostitution in London 1161-1546"1989 •
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.
2011 •
This is a bibliography of primary sources in translation prepared as a guide for students doing research projects for my undergraduate course, HST 362, on concepts of sex and gender in the Middle Ages. The version posted here was last revised in 2011.
'This essay was the winner of the British Association for Local History ‘Medieval and early modern essay prize’ for 2014. It begins by considering the terminology of prostitution and ‘sex trades’ in medieval England and links this with the colourful nomenclature of streets, lanes and ‘red light districts’ of a variety of medieval towns and cities. In Oxford what later became (decorously) Magpie Lane was known in the Middle Ages as ‘Gropecunt Lane’ (or variants on that theme). Kavanagh therefore considers the topography of prostitution, looking at possible reasons why areas such as this were so favoured for illicit and nocturnal activities, and identifies that in the special circumstances of Oxford the proximity to colleges and to religious houses was certain to have been a powerful determinant. She then assesses the attitudes of the Church towards prostitution and sexual activity, including contemporary examples of incontinence among the clerics of Oxford, and then turns to the abundant evidence for similar irregularity among the students of the university, its colleges and halls. Examples of specific cases are given, and there is discussion of the punishments which were meted out to women who offended. The inquisitions conducted by the chancellors of the university give further evidence, and Kavanagh makes comparisons between Oxford and other towns and cities, and between England and Continental Europe. Her concluding argument is that prostitution in English towns and cities was not necessarily similar – and that in particular the attitudes of the authorities varied from place to place. In places such as Southwark and Sandwich there were licensed brothels, whereas Oxford, for example, had no such facility.'
2004 •
Negotiating the boundaries of sex and the sacred in Florence meant quite different things for a succession of authorities from the late thirteenth to the late sixteenth centuries. As we work to analyze the different sets of legislations, laws, and targets that evolved over these centuries, we see that one of the things that distinguished them from eachother was precisely the different senses that each addressed. In a very rough sense, we can track three stages through the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Approaching these regulations by way of space and the senses highlights a conjunction of interests that we can miss if we look at legal or moral considerations alone. The rules were often quixotic, yet when we map out their provisions and prosecutions, we can see that the rule makers were serious in their intent, and that the sequence of rules tracks a sequence of ways of conceiving of urban space and sound. Mapping the boundaries and spaces of prostitution, and tracking shifts in prosecution over the centuries allows us better to appreciate the significant shifts in how generations of legislators aimed to regulate the sights, sounds, and above all the politics of sex and the sacred in Florence. Using digital tools to do this mapping allows us to visualize these social realities while creating a platform that invites further research collaboration and facilitates sensory analysis.
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2024 •
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