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Paperback The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London Book

ISBN: 0253021367

ISBN13: 9780253021366

The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London

(Part of the New Anthropologies of Europe Series)

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Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried there--the "Winchester Geese," women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark, not far from Shakespeare's Globe, is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists, and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials...

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