HIST 0N02 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Financial Services, Wet Nurse, Achurch
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Prostitutes and prostitution: standard feature of life: no male relative: family was a social network, their presence was accepted, but restricted, talented musicians and poets viii. Insular communities in terms of language and rituals. Marginal groups: beggars, foreigners, and jews: beggars tolerated by the church, foreigners, jews, financial services, jewish physicians, the persecution of jews, jews allowed to settle in italy (15th cent. , the first ghettoes (venice, private life a. It varied according to class: the peasantry, the nobleman, the wealthy merchant class (after the improvement of the economy in the. Childbearing: an important aspect of a woman"s role in the family, contraception, the risks of childbirth for the mother. Infant mortality: poor sanitary conditions, lack of proper nutrition, the midwife, what about male physicians? viii. 5: the mother"s status, what happened to illegitimate children, education and worthy employment, abandoned or killed ix.