Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years'' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt, Syria or Anatolia. Ranging extensively from 300 CE to 1500 (or from the reign of Theodosius to the early Ot...