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 to which
dishonor determined the life chances and self-identity of these people. Taking Augsburg as a prime example, it investigates how honorable estates interacted with dishonorable people, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honorable society..
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