Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts

Kathy (University of California, Davis) Stuart

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521027212
ISBN-10
0521027217
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-11-02
Pages
300
Dimensions
151x228x25
Weight
448