The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam (57 page)

68
,
78
,
86
,
98
,
101
,
151
,
195
,

232
–
5
,
238

travellers
see
tourists

Undertakers Riot
48
,
65
,
104
,
162

Utrecht
39
,
129
,
137
,
143
,
183
,
193

venereal diseases
47
,
50
,
68
,
72
,
74
,

75
–
6
,
80
,
100
,
118
,
149
,
154
,
156
,

189
,
212
n.
34
;
see also

pockmasters; honour (mercury) treatment for plate
6
;

22
,
74
–
5
,
80
,
173

Vermeer, Johannes (Dutch painter)

12

verresen Hippolytus, Den
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–
9

virginity, virgins
48
,
50
,
82
,
11
3
,
1
24
,

193

VOC (
Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
) (Dutch East India Company),
also
the Company
53
,
155
–
65
,
232

VOC sailors plate
11
;
3
,
15
–
16
,

39
–
40
,
53
,
75
,
108
,
113
,
123
,

155
–
65
,
167
,
189
,
200
,
232
,

235
–
7

VOC soldiers
53
,
156
–
8
,
160
,
162
,
200

Wagenaar, Jan (Amsterdam historian)
65
,
99
,
160

wages
27

men’s
150
,
166
–
7

women’s
61
,
145
,
151
,
167
,
170
,

176
,
179
,
189

Watson, Elkanah (American traveller)
2
,
30
,
41
,
238

Welch, Saunders (English chief constable)
19

West Frisia
9
,
93
,
126
,
215
n.
4

Weyerman, Jacob Campo (Dutch writer)
11
,
81
–
2
,
211
n.
12

whoredom,
see
prostitution; fornication

whorehouses (
hoerhuizen
),
also

bawdy-houses; brothels
27
–
9
,

33
–
4
,
37
and
passim

as a pre-industrial business
27
–
8
description in travelogues
232
–
3
organized as a household
169

as places for exchange of news

164
–
5

as surrogate households
163

run by women
25

terms of employment in
169
–
71

as upside-down or dishonest households
53
,
60
,
163

whore-hunters
see
clients whoremasters (
hoerenwaarden
),
see

male brothel-keepers whores (
hoeren
) as ‘public whores’

as ‘lascivious women’
4
–
6
,
18
,
93
,

102
,
147

as a metaphor
102
,
187

‘whore’ as an insult
46
–
7
,
51
,
54

see also
prostitutes whore-walkers,
see
clients

whoring (
hoererij
),
also
whoredom (
hoerdom
)
4
–
6
,
67
–
9
,
98
–
100
;

see also
fornication WIC (
West-Indische

Compagnie
)
53
,
158
,
197
,

200

Wild, Jonathan
123

Wittewrongel, Petrus (Amsterdam minister)
29
,
67

Wolff, Betje (and her poem

Walcheren
)
161

Wolff, Betje, and Aagje Deken (Dutch writers)
2
,
85
,
87
–
8

women,
also
gender roles; misogyny; and
passim

on the boards of institutions
102

dominating poor neighbourhoods
61
,
63
,
151

dressing up as men
1
,
51
,
158

female attitudes towards prostitutes
86
–
8

female honour
43
,
47
–
9

female neighbours
61
,
63
–
6
,
126

independence of
151

literacy of
172

migration of
144
–
7

as police informers
123
–
5
,
127

reputed bossiness of
151

as sexually voracious
76
–
81
,
147

in the Spin House
97
–
9

surplus of
150
–
1

women’s work
24
–
5
,
49
,
56
,
61
,
98
,

144
–
5
,
160
,
166
;
see also
wages; seamstresses; maidservants

brothel-keeping as
24
–
6

Wonderlyk leeven van ’t Boullonnois hondtie, Het
33
,
99
,
100

Workhouse
9
7
–
8
,
1
08
–
9

Zesen, Filips von (German writer)
98
,
100

Zurck, Eduard van (Dutch lawyer)
161

Zuylen van Nievelt, Jacob van (sheriff)
117