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Courtesanship

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Cour´te`san`ship
n.1.Harlotry.


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Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner (333-48), whose forthcoming book on the courtesans of Rome will probably supplant Umberto Gnoli's of 1941, asserts that the institution of courtesanship benefitted such a large section (about ten percent) of the Roman populace that this form of prostitution was "a pronounced phenomenon of the masses" (333).
Turning new leaves: Renaissance studies in Germany, 1995 by Karant-Nunn, Susan C. / Renaissance Quarterly
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