Strangers and Misfits

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.

"Écrit d’une plume aisée, bien construit et enrichi de quelques illustrations tirées des marges de l’Urgichtbuch de la ville, le livre de J.P.C. offre pour la première fois une vision approfondie de la pratique du bannissement dans l’une des plus importantes communautés urbaines du Saint-Empire. [...] Un livre utile donc, car il comble partiellement une lacune criante, mais l’enquête reste ouverte." Falk Bretschneider, Revue de l'Institut Français d'Histoire en Allemagne, 3 (2011) pp. 389-392."Coy is to be commneded for a volume that is concise and focused, carefully reasoned and rich with examples. Indeed, this volume should encourage wider study of banishment across early modern Europe and spur further research on this crucial, common, and often overlooked feature of urban life."J. Jeffery Tyler, Renaissance Quarterly, 62 (2009) 974–975."Within its rather strict limits, this is a solid and imaginative study of a sixteenth-century Imperial city, one that sets down conclusions that will prompt comparison with other towns as future scholars look to see how widely applicable Coy's conclusions may be"H.C. Erik Midelfort, The Journal of Central European History, 43 (2010) 346-348.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Banishment and Social Control in Early Modern GermanyI. Banishment and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Ulm The Banishment of Rosina SchemerinPolitical Authority and Law Enforcement in UlmBanishment Practices: Prosecution and Purgation II. Vagrancy and BanishmentThe Banishment of Michel MaürerVagrancy Legislation and the Urban Community Banishment and the 1559 Beggars’ OrdinancePublic Expulsion and Sociospatial BoundariesIII. Resident Aliens, Expulsion, and ExclusionThe Banishment of Cathrina MairThe Migrants’ Ordinance and the Regulation of Resident Aliens Expulsion and ExclusionProperty & Purity: the Banishment of Resident AliensIV. Moral Reform and the Banishment of CitizensThe Banishment of the Haüser Brothers Moral Reform and Social Control: The Church Ordinance of 1531/1581Banishment and Bürgerrecht: The Banishment of CitizensNegotiation, Resistance, and AppealV. Public Expulsion Rituals and Early Modern Authority The Ritual Expulsion of Simon SchlögelDisplacement and Discipline: Banishment and Horizontal Social Control in UlmThe Therapeutic Role of Purgation‘An Image and Example’: Banishment, Public Penal Displays, and Political Authority ConclusionBibliographyIndex