Defiled trades and social outcasts : honor and ritual pollution in early modern Germany /

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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 �...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stuart, Kathy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2000]
Colección:Cambridge studies in early modern history.
Temas:
Social classes > Germany > History.
Occupations > Germany > History.
Classes sociales > Allemagne > Histoire.
Professions > Allemagne > Histoire.
Occupations
Social classes
Germany
History
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : defiled trades
  • Part I. The meaning of dishonor in early modern society ; Medieval versus early modern dishonor
  • Honor, status, and pollution
  • Part II. The dishonorable milieu ; The status of executioners and skinners, 1500-1700
  • Living on the periphery of dishonor
  • Part III. Paradoxical dishonor : punishment and healing ; The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline
  • The executioner's healing touch : health and honor in early modern German medical practice
  • Part IV. Artisanal honor and urban politics ; Guardians of honor : artisans versus magistrates
  • Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century
  • Conclusion : dishonor and the society of orders.

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