TY - JOUR AU - Charlotte A. Stanford PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag JF - Mediaevistik IS - 1 VL - 32 SN - 2199-806X TI - Albrecht Classen, . Studies in Medieval Literature. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books, 2019, 237 p. DO - 10.3726/med.2019.01.21 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1272115 N2 - As this book notes wryly, sex sells well, and the related topic of prostitution has also had its related impact in scholarly literature, even of the premodern era. However, the author also observes a “curious lacuna”—how has prostitution been represented in literary texts? By whom, for what reasons, and for what purposes have these narratives been employed? And what can they tell us about the history of ER -