Prostitution: a historical phenomenon from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages and early modern ages, mirrored in literary documents -- Modern voices and witnesses of prostitution in literature -- The Canoness Hrotsvit and the prostitute: an early medieval playwright and her responses to the "sordid" world of prostitution -- Christine de Pizan's advice to prostitutes: a late medieval perspective by a woman writer regarding prostitution -- Prostitution in the work of late medieval poetry: Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/77-1445) -- Prostitution in the works by François Villon: autobiographical-erotic discourse from the underside of courtly culture -- The prostitute as protagonist: the intriguing case of Fernando de Rojas's Celestina (1499) -- THe sojourn in a brothel: an unusual perspective in a late medieval German verse narrative -- The prostitute and prostitution in late-medieval and early modern German song poetry: Clara Hätzlerin, Franz Joachim Brechtel, Alexander Utendal, Venus-Gärtlein, and Hans Sachs -- Prostitutes in fabliaux, mæren, and novelli: the rise of realism in late medieval and early modern literature seen through the lens of commodified sexuality -- Prostitutes in sixteenth-century Schwänke (prose jest narratives)