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Defiled trades and social outcasts : honor and ritual pollution in early modern Germany /
"This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonorable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonorable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the 'dishonorable' by virtue of their trades. This dishonor was either inherited, often through several generations, or it arose from ritual pollution whereby honorable citizens could become dishonorable by coming into casual contact with members of the outcast group." "The dishonorable milieu of the city of Augsburg from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century is reconstructed, to show the extent to which dishonor determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonorable people."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511117744 9780511117749 9780521652391 0521652391 0511066414 9780511066412 9780511496967 0511496966 9786610160112 6610160112 128016011X 9781280160110 1139146122 9781139146128 0511329245 9780511329241 0511068549 9780511068546 1107117437 9781107117433 |