Congratulations to Dr. McDonough on Her New Article!

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:11:26 -0400

This is Dr. McDonough's first publication on her new project on prostitutes in the medieval Mediterranean with more still to come.
Based in archival research from Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia and Palermo, this article argues for a reconsideration of the gendering of the medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on prostitutes and their movement to and from Mediterranean port cities and queries how they used the institutions of the law courts and the notariat to integrate themselves into the everyday workings of the city. The article concludes with a call to rethink whose movement counts in the medieval Mediterranean when scholars think of the region as a whole.