Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts

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  • Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts Book Detail

  • Author : Kathy Stuart
  • Release Date : 2000-05-04
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 301
  • ISBN 13 : 113943148X
  • File Size : 29,29 MB

Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts by Kathy Stuart PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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