A vigadó 16. századi Kolozsvár és a pajzán hegedűsnék. Pillanatképek a város mindennapjairól
The Rollicking City of the 16th Century Kolozsvár and the Impish Fiddler Women

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses a segment of Renaissance leisure culture in Cluj/Kolozsvár, the practice of rollicking on a society scale and making merry in the taverns with musical accompaniment. The so-called “fiddler women”, the meretrices, the prostitutes, and the “respectable” citizens’ wives who put their bodies on sale, committing thereby adultery, a deadly sin according to the standards of the epoch, have been frequent participants of this form of social contact. Our most relevant sources concerning them lie in the records of the city council.

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