The rural village in nineteenth-century Europe was caught in a conflict between its traditional local culture and its new integration into the grasp of state institutions and modern social structures. Local practices were turned into crimes; the social meaning of crime within the village culture was redefined by the introduction of bourgeois penal law and psychiatry. The language of the intruding agencies had created, through a wealth of written documentation, an image of village life for the outside world. Criminal investigations, however, had to be based on interrogations of the villagers themselves, and it was through this questioning process that their own views, language, and symbolic gestures went on record. Schulte provides a new and original interpretation of village power structures, gender relations, and generational rites of passage through a close reading of the trial proceedings before the penal courts of Upper Bavaria for the three most important types of rural crime: arson, infanticide, and poaching.
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This review is from: The Village in Court: Arson, Infanticide, and Poaching in the Court Records of Upper Bavaria 1848-1910 (Hardcover)
If you want to know what is going on in a neighborhood, you read the police blotter.
This good (if pricey) work on village life in Upper Bavaria covers the period between the mid 1800s to the turn of the century. The three main types of major crime are explored in depth; what they were, why they were committed, how they were detected, and how the justice system handled them. Interestingly enough,in 19th century Bavaria, like most of Europe, poaching was viewed by those in power as a major crime. Here in the U.S., it is viewed as a high misdemeanor; only becoming a felony in extreme cases. Reading the stories of the poachers, I realized I grew up with some of these guys.
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Farms and small holdings had gone up in flames: straw stacks and hay barns, some peat huts and piles of brushwood, and particularly the barns packed with hay, straw, and the entire harvest, from where the fire would spread in an instant to the rest of the farm, so that in more than half the cases all the farm buildings and their contents had been reduced to ashes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poaching songs, bridal wagon, unmarried farmhand, blackcock feathers, game tenants, farm maids, new game law, criminal psychiatry, commercial poaching, farm servants, provincial judge, been poaching, village policeman, rural crime, rural lower classes, roe deer, peasant world, forestry officials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Bavaria, Bavarian Hiasl, Josef Riessl, Kiem Pauli, Anna Holl, Martin Haberer, Agathe Seidl, Johann Wagner, Ludwig Thoma, Therese Zeller, Herrschaftliche Jagd, Johann Hopf, Xaver Herberger, Anton Wegner, Farmer Bachl, Lena Christ, Mathias Bichler, Michael Lechner, Thomas Wasensteiner, Andreas Trischberger, Bayerisch Land, Bayerisches Dienstbotenleben, Chamber of the Interior, Dionysius Schelm, Lorenz Hammerl New!
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Farms and small holdings had gone up in flames: straw stacks and hay barns, some peat huts and piles of brushwood, and particularly the barns packed with hay, straw, and the entire harvest, from where the fire would spread in an instant to the rest of the farm, so that in more than half the cases all the farm buildings and their contents had been reduced to ashes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poaching songs, bridal wagon, unmarried farmhand, blackcock feathers, game tenants, farm maids, new game law, criminal psychiatry, commercial poaching, farm servants, provincial judge, been poaching, village policeman, rural crime, rural lower classes, roe deer, peasant world, forestry officials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Bavaria, Bavarian Hiasl, Josef Riessl, Kiem Pauli, Anna Holl, Martin Haberer, Agathe Seidl, Johann Wagner, Ludwig Thoma, Therese Zeller, Herrschaftliche Jagd, Johann Hopf, Xaver Herberger, Anton Wegner, Farmer Bachl, Lena Christ, Mathias Bichler, Michael Lechner, Thomas Wasensteiner, Andreas Trischberger, Bayerisch Land, Bayerisches Dienstbotenleben, Chamber of the Interior, Dionysius Schelm, Lorenz Hammerl New!
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