Medieval anti-Christian polemic cast pilgrimage Jerusalem as a city of prostitution and greed.
Evidence
There was no citizen in Jerusalem so rich that he would not expose his sister, his daughter or, what was detestable, his wife, for money, to the lust of the pilgrims, whom in this way he cleared of the rewards of their labours. Thus everyone was given to gluttony and the enticements of the flesh; in no way were they different from the cattle. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1095
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the moral-panic-over-immodesty article and the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ theme — here dressed in pilgrimage economics.
- ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article as a medieval Christian-world mirror image: Muslim polemic denouncing Christian bodily vice.