This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners,

Annotation "The 10 essays in the volume engage a rich array of toples, including obscenty in the German States censorship in France's third republic, she - male

Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history

This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which bo

Traces the development of German civil society through collective actions of honor