Uneasy peace: the practice of the Stallung Ritual in Zürich

• Autores: Susanne Pohl
• Localización: Journal of early modern history, ISSN 1385-3783, Vol. 7, Nº 1-2, 2003 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Honor and Law in Early Modern Europe), págs. 28-54
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • This article discusses the Stallung or "peace bidding' ritual in the imperial city of Zürich during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. According to city law, every Zürcher had to ask quarrelling citizens to make peace, and the contestants were then obligated to end their fight. The discussion of .Stallung in this article is informed by practice theory as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and Sherey Ortner. While habitus or structure constrains and produces the goals of social actors, those social actors also enact and transform structure. The meaning of the Stallung ritual was not stable, but subject to constant situational adjustment. The Stallung ritual may have prevented outbreaks of violence in many instances, yet the evidence demonstrates that the ritual was often absorved into the ongoing dynamic of challenge and riposte that shaped contests over honor between male citizens