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

Autor Kathy Stuart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2006
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521027212
ISBN-10: 0521027217
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 8 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: defiled trades; Part I. The Meaning of Dishonor in Early Modern Society: 1. Medieval versus early modern dishonor; 2. Honor, status and pollution; Part II. The Dishonorable Milieu: 3. The status of executioners and skinners, 1500–1700; 4. Living on the periphery of dishonor; Part III. Paradoxical Dishonor: Punishment and Healing: 5. The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline; 6. The executioner's healing touch: health and honor in early modern German medical practice; Part IV. Artisanal Honor and Urban Politics: 7. Guardians of honor: artisans versus magistrates; 8. Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century; Conclusion: dishonor and the society of orders; Select bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'This is a splendid book, carefully honed over several years, beautifully written, and a delight to read.' David Warren Sabean, Journal of Social History
'Rarely has an anthropologically informed study been joined with such careful attention to local judicial records.This is an excellent book.' H. C. Erik Midelfort, The American Historical Review
'… Kathy Stuart has written an important and original book that deserves to be read by a wide circle of scholars.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Central European History
'This award-winning monograph represents a major contribution to our understanding of marginal groups and artisanal culture through its functional analysis of the mechanisms of prejudice.' David Lederer, German History

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A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute) in early modern Germany.