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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 'dishonourable 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 �...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2000]
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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 'dishonourable 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 'dishonourable' by virtue of their trades. This dishonour was either hereditary, often through several generations, or it arose from ritual pollution whereby honourable citizens could become dishonourable by coming into casual contact with members of the outcast group. The dishonourable milieu of the city of Augsburg from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is reconstructed to show the extent to which dishonour determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonourable people. The book then investigates how honourable estates interacted with dishonourable people, and how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honourable society. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes glossary, footnotes with bibliographical references, selected bibliographical references, and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511068546 0511068549 128016011X 9781280160110 9780511496967 0511496966 9780521652391 0521652391 9780521027212 0521027217 |