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

ISBN: 0521027217

ISBN13: 9780521027212

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

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History Series)

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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...

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