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

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

Product details

• Authors: Kathy Stuart, Kathy (University of California Stuart
• Assisted by: John Elliott (Editor), Olwen Hufton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027212
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02721-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories