ISBN:
9780521652391
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (301 p.)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Safley, Thomas Max [Rezension von: Stuart, Kathy, Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany] 2002
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Parallel Title:
Print version Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts : Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
DDC:
305.50943
Keywords:
Social classes ; Germany ; History
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Abstract:
A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute). This book examines an outcast group in early modern Germany which included executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within 'honourable' society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: defiled trades; DISHONORABLE PEOPLE, MARGINALITY, AND SOCIAL DISCIPLINING; DISHONOR, "TABOO," AND CASTE POLLUTION; THE DISHONOR OF THE EXECUTIONER; THE "DOVE-LIKE-PURITY" OF ARTISANAL HONOR; DISHONOR IN THE FREE IMPERIAL CITY OF AUGSBURG; 1 Medieval versus early modern dishonor; 2 Honor, status, and pollution; 3 The status of executioners and skinners, 1500-1700; 4 Living on the periphery of dishonor
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline6 The executioner's healing touch: health and honor in early modern German medical practice; 7 Guardians of honor: artisans versus magistrates; 8 Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century; Conclusion: dishonor and the society of orders; Selected bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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