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‘Dishonourable’ youth, guilds, and the changed world view of sex, illegitimacy, and women in late-sixteenth-century Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

MARIA R. BOES
MARIA R. BOES
Affiliation:
Department of History, West Chester University, Pennsylvania.
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Abstract

This study focuses on two closely related exclusionary guild policies implemented in Germany towards the latter part of the sixteenth century: the barring of illegitimates and women. The article addresses the reasons for and, more importantly, the repercussions of these exclusions, which affected many cultural and mentality patterns and led to the social and psychological scarring of illegitimates and their unwed mothers for centuries to come.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , December 2003 , pp. 345 - 372
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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