Strangers and Misfits

Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16174-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coy, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Figures

Introduction: Banishment and Social Control in Early Modern Germany

I. Banishment and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Ulm
The Banishment of Rosina Schemerin
Political Authority and Law Enforcement in Ulm
Banishment Practices: Prosecution and Purgation

II. Vagrancy and Banishment
The Banishment of Michel Maürer
Vagrancy Legislation and the Urban Community
Banishment and the 1559 Beggars’ Ordinance
Public Expulsion and Sociospatial Boundaries

III. Resident Aliens, Expulsion, and Exclusion
The Banishment of Cathrina Mair
The Migrants’ Ordinance and the Regulation of Resident Aliens
Expulsion and Exclusion
Property & Purity: the Banishment of Resident Aliens

IV. Moral Reform and the Banishment of Citizens
The Banishment of the Haüser Brothers
Moral Reform and Social Control: The Church Ordinance of 1531/1581
Banishment and Bürgerrecht: The Banishment of Citizens
Negotiation, Resistance, and Appeal

V. Public Expulsion Rituals and Early Modern Authority
The Ritual Expulsion of Simon Schlögel
Displacement and Discipline: Banishment and Horizontal Social Control in Ulm
The Therapeutic Role of Purgation
‘An Image and Example’: Banishment, Public Penal Displays, and Political Authority

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Philip Coy, Ph.D. (2001) in History, University of California, Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.