Type
Equipment (E-resource)
Acronym
PROST
Code
APP/00113
Date of commissioning
01 January 2018 → …
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Modern and contemporary history
- Regional and urban history
- Socio-economic history
Keywords
Bruges
Prostitution
History
Other information
Description
The PROST database includes information about women working in the prostitution sector in the town of Bruges during the period 1750-1790. It combines two distinct data collections:
| Data set 1 | Data on legal cases related to prostitution, derived from judicial sources such as criminal investigations, defendant interrogations, and verdicts |
| Data set 2 | Individual life histories of the prostitutes mentioned in the trials, including details on family, occupations, residences, etc. (1,200 individuals, 360 variables) |