Humpback
Peddlers from Val Gardena with a load of carved wooden horses
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In the Middle Ages traveling traders were referred to as humpbacks or backsellers . Humpback traders carried their wares on their backs and wandered from place to place on foot to sell their wares there. Therefore, the name comes that she on her back (hump) is a reef (a kind of head-high Kraxe contributed).
The humpback pharmacists , who exclusively offered olities (natural remedies), were a special form of the humpback shop.
From the late 16th century, peddling was banned in some German territories. Hunchbacks were increasingly seen as beggars , criminals and "homeless rabble ". In many medieval cities there were therefore later bans on harboring humpbacks.
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- ↑ a b c Winfried Schulze, Helmut Gabel: Corporate society and social mobility , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3486543513 , page 141