Denunciation and reproval – attentiveness as a resource in the implementation of law in late medieval and early modern urban society (1400–1650) (B02)

在城市社会，谴责和谴责在相当大程度上是为了实现不同的监管目标而从中世纪晚期开始有意使用的。这些目标只有在这些社区的居民继续注意其同胞和妇女的行为/外表的情况下才能实现。着装法规在这里特别重要，因为服装是平民社会地位的标志，尽管最初主要是女性的。公职人员也只有通过着装才能发出信号，表示他们在“执勤”。该项目审查了这些城市社会长期规定的对关注的期望与特定环境之间的相互作用，在这种环境中，城市居民特别愿意向有关当局报告违反妇女和(男性)官员着装规定的行为。

In urban societies, denunciations and reprovals were intentionally employed to a considerable extent from the late Middle Ages onwards for the attainment of diverse regulatory goals. These goals could only be achieved if the inhabitants of these communities remained attentive to the behaviours/appearances of their fellow townsmen and townswomen. Dress regulations are of particular interest here as clothing served as a marker of social status for civilians, albeit predominantly only for women initially. It was also only through clothing that public officials could signal that they were ‘on duty’. The project examines the interplay between the expectations of attention permanently prescribed within these urban societies and the specific settings in which a violation of dressing regulations for women and (male) officials was met with a particularly high level of readiness to advert them to the respective authorities by the city’s inhabitants.