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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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