Forgot password? Don't have an account? This chapter discusses honour and shame as a central concept in this urban society, and concomitant concepts of credit, both in financial and social sense, and of citizenship, for which a good name was a condition. It concentrates on the importance, criteria and symbols of a good reputation especially among the common population.
Among themselves, however, those who lived by prostitution had their own norms of honour, of which the symbolism corresponded with those of the honourable world.
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