Strangers and misfits :: banishment, social control, and authority in early modern Germany /

"Banishment was crucial to law enforcement in early modern Europe, as magistrates used expulsion to punish and control thousands of offenders convicted of crimes ranging from adultery to theft. While early modern social control has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, b...

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1. Verfasser: Coy, Jason Philip, 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2008]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 47.
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Zusammenfassung:"Banishment was crucial to law enforcement in early modern Europe, as magistrates used expulsion to punish and control thousands of offenders convicted of crimes ranging from adultery to theft. While early modern social control has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, banishment has been largely neglected. This book examines the role of banishment in sixteenth-century Ulm, an important south German city-state, using the town's experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society. This investigation sheds new light on the application of authority, the intersection between official disciplinary efforts and customary behavioral norms, and the function of public expulsion in displaying and defending social hierarchies, issues central to our historical understanding of the period. "--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 156 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151) and index.
ISBN:9789047442790
9047442792
9781282397576
1282397575
ISSN:1547-1217

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