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Article: Popular Culture, Crime, and Social Control in 18th-Century Wurttemberg.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Swabia, with its abundant source materials, has attracted much attention from historians, and since the 1980s this historiography has been dominated by social/cultural historians. A recent and compelling addition comes from Karl Wegert. In his study of criminal cases (approximately 300) that passed through Wurttemberg's privy council during the eighteenth century, Wegert focuses on those capital crimes that drew the most attention: homicide, infanticide, and bestiality. According to Wegert, the first two are correctly defined as crime, but the last should be defined as a deviance, for there are no human victims in bestiality. This distinction is only one example of the ...