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

by Kathy Stuart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027217
• ISBN13: 9780521027212
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"