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Indlæser... Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germanyaf Kathy Stuart
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. REENACTMENT VIEW: 16th thru 18th C 286 pages: Covers the range of 'dirty trades' in Germany during the Early Modern period. Suprises abound - such as the fact that there were two sets of city police in large towns; those that physically handled condemnd prisoners and those that did not. Also, the evolution of family traditions in 'dirty trades' and the disruption caused by the Reformation and Counter Reformation. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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