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Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany

Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany

Stuart, Kathy
Elliott, John
Hufton, Olwen

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

General World HistoryGerman HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0521027217
ISBN13: 9780521027212
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 2 2006
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. It shows the extent to which dishonor determined the life chances and self-identity of these people. Taking Augsburg as a prime example, it investigates how honorable estates interacted with dishonorable people, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honorable society.

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