Defiled trades and social outcasts: honor and ritual pollution in early modern germany
Auteur :
Stuart, Kathy
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521027212
Date de publication :
2 nov. 2006
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
467 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.