{"product_id":"defiled-trades-and-social-outcasts-honor-and-ritual-pollution-in-early-modern-germany-paperback-9780521027212","title":"Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts; Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521027212","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDefiled Trades and Social Outcasts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHonor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute) in early modern Germany.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathy Stuart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521027212, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 8 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This award-winning monograph represents a major contribution to our understanding of marginal groups and artisanal culture through its functional analysis of the mechanisms of prejudice.' David Lederer, German History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: defiled trades\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Meaning of Dishonor in Early Modern Society: 1. Medieval versus early modern dishonor\u003cbr\u003e 2. Honor, status and pollution\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Dishonorable Milieu: 3. The status of executioners and skinners, 1500–1700\u003cbr\u003e 4. Living on the periphery of dishonor\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Paradoxical Dishonor: Punishment and Healing: 5. The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline\u003cbr\u003e 6. The executioner's healing touch: health and honor in early modern German medical practice\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Artisanal Honor and Urban Politics: 7. Guardians of honor: artisans versus magistrates\u003cbr\u003e 8. Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: dishonor and the society of orders\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913076400408,"sku":"9780521027212","price":42.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521027212i_ec9d51ae-6d2d-4d66-ac82-7409abcd401a.jpg?v=1694964733","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/defiled-trades-and-social-outcasts-honor-and-ritual-pollution-in-early-modern-germany-paperback-9780521027212","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}