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Butchers, bakers, candlestick-makers − and prostitutes: The women working behind the scenes in papal Avignon

By Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of Medieval History, University of Rhode Island

Women’s work may not have been glamorous, but it was vital to the workings of the pope’s court and surrounding city.

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