Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts : Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction: defiled trades -- DISHONORABLE PEOPLE, MARGINALITY, AND SOCIAL DISCIPLINING -- DISHONOR, "TABOO," AND CASTE POLLUTION -- THE DISHONOR OF THE EXECUTIONER -- THE "DOVE-LIKE-PURITY" OF ARTISANAL HONOR -- DISHONOR IN THE FREE IMPERIAL CITY OF AUGSBURG -- PART I The meaning of dishonor in early modern society -- 1 Medieval versus early modern dishonor -- 2 Honor, status, and pollution -- DISHONOR IN LEGAL THEORY -- THE LINGUISTIC BOUNDARY OF HONOR -- ARTISANAL AMBIVALENCE -- DISHONOR AND SECULAR ELITES -- DISHONOR AND THE CHURCH -- CONCLUSION: THE AMBIGUITY OF DISHONOR -- PART II The dishonorable milieu -- 3 The status of executioners and skinners, 1500-1700 -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Living on the periphery of dishonor -- SHEPHERDS -- BAILIFFS -- GRAVE-DIGGERS AND "NIGHT-WORKERS" -- BATHMASTERS AND BARBER-SURGEONS -- LINEN-WEAVERS -- CONCLUSION -- PART III Paradoxical dishonor: punishment and healing -- 5 The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline -- INSTRUMENTS OF PUNISHMENT -- THE INFAMOUS FUR COAT -- THE COERCIVE POTENTIAL OF DISHONOR POLLUTION -- PUNISHMENT AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR -- DISOBEDIENCE AND THE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE -- TORTURE AND THE EXECUTIONER'S TOUCH -- THE IMPACT OF NON-CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- 6 The executioner's healing touch: health and honor in early modern German medical practice -- MEDICAL OPTIONS -- EXECUTIONER MEDICINE -- MEDICINE AND MAGIC -- THE EXECUTIONER'S PRACTICE -- THE EXECUTIONER'S CLIENTELE -- RHETORICAL STRATEGIES OF MEDICAL COMPETITION -- ARS MORIENDI: EXECUTION, REDEMPTION, AND MEDICINE -- CONCLUSION: FILTH AND HEALING -- PART IV Artisanal honor and urban politics -- 7 Guardians of honor: artisans versus magistrates.

HONOR AND ECONOMIC SELF-INTEREST? -- A TYPOLOGY OF DISHNOR CONFLICTS -- DISPOSAL OF SUICIDES: SECULAR DISHONOR VS. "TABOO" -- BASTARDY AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT -- GUILD MEMBERSHIP AND SELF-IDENTITY -- DISHONOR IN CORPORATE SOCIETY -- JOURNEYMEN AS ENFORCERS OF THE HONOR CODE -- DISHONOR POLLUTION AND GENDER -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century -- EXECUTIONER MEDICINE AND THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY -- UNEMPLOYED EXECUTIONERS -- THE LIMITED EFFECTIVENESS OF LEGITIMATIONS -- THE PROLIFERATING CRITERIA OF INFAMY -- SOFT-TREADING MAGISTRATES: APPEASING THE ARTISANS -- Conclusion: dishonor and the society of orders -- Selected bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Unprinted sources -- Printed sources -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index.