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1 mai 2020
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Isabel Harvey, « A Note of Terminology: Prostitutes or Sex Workers? », Conflict and Collaboration, ID : 10.58079/omnt
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By Adrina Schulz, 01/05/2020 The word Prostitution in German is anachronistic: it does not appear in the medieval or early modern Zurich sources, although Peter Schuster did find it in a Nurnberg source in the sixteenth century (Schuster 1992, p. 19). The words used instead were numerous, context-dependent, and variable. In fact, almost any word meaning woman could be used to denote a prostitute when combined with certain adjectives. For example, in the case of Kaspar Bleuler from 1566, th...