Courtesans and Their Arts in Early Modern Times
Proposed Session at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 25-28, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio, TO BE SPONSORED BY SSEMW Organizer: Cynthia Stollhans, Saint Louis University Courtesans (or geishas or any other name) are women who receive money and/or gifts for sexual favors, entertainment, friendship, and, at times, intellectual conversation. For this session, I am seeking abstracts for papers to be included in a session that has as its primary focus a courtesan or courtesans and their in…
Cincinnati, Ohio (25-28 octobre 2012)