Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts - Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany - Kathy Stuart - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press -

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A social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute). This book examines an outcast group in early modern Germany which included executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within 'honourable' society.