Abstract
Scholars of women camp followers in early modern German armies have debated both the extent to which the Reformations’ environment of moral and social disciplining shaped military life and the chronology of prohibitions of prostitution in army life. This article argues that religious reformers’ attitudes shaped military policy regarding prostitution as soon as the early sixteenth century and that women camp followers’ and soldiers’ resistance to these regulatory changes laid the groundwork for women's eventual exclusion from campaign life under suspicion of being prostitutes in the German context.
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