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Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Author: Kathy Stuart
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521027212
ISBN-10: 0521027217
Publication Date: 11/2/2006
Pages: 299
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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