Defiled trades and social outcasts : honor and ritual pollution in early modern Germany /

"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 th...

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Main Author:	Stuart, Kathy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:	Cambridge studies in early modern history.
Subjects:	Social classes > Germany > History. Occupations > Germany > History. History.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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