IMC 2015: Sessions

Session 706: Perceiving and Regulating Vices

Sponsor:	Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:	Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Isabella Nicka, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Universität Salzburg
Paper 706-a	Crime and Punishment: Regulating Gambling in Livonian Towns (Language: English) Anu Mänd, Institute of History, University of Tallinn Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 706-b	Regulating Prostitution: Everyday Life in the Late Medieval Austrian Frauenhaus (Language: English) Michael M. Hammer, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Mentalities, Sexuality
Paper 706-c	The Best Little Whorehouses in Hungary: The Topography of Brothels in the Free Royal Towns (Language: English) Christopher Mielke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Sexuality, Social History
Abstract	The session deals with the perception of, criticism on, and the attempts to limit vices in the Middle Ages. The papers concentrate on prostitution and gambling. They are meant to lead to the recognition of respective patterns of norm and practice.