City of Sin : London and its Vices

City of Sin : London and its Vices

Catharine Arnold

Språken
FörlagSimon & Schuster UK
ISBN9780857200259

If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. As early