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The author focuses on the question of prostitution in the medieval Cracow in the light of edited-by- himself treaty by John Falkenberg Iudicium de aedificandis domis pro meretricibus. Writing his treaty Falkenberg was trying, at the request of the Municipal Council, answer the following questions: do laws established by people allow the existence of prostitutes, and: can the ruler of the city or councillors build brothels, put prostitutes there and then profit from such business. The text contains a short review of the problem of prostitution in Cracow of that time as well as the explanati of a context in which Falkenberg’s work was written. In the last part of the article, the author presents a two-part edition of the treaty.
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