Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories
Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law-called Weistümer-that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales. As with the fairy tales, Grimm assumed that before their transcription, people had handed these down orally from time immemorial. His interest in these customary laws arose from their seemingly folkloristic notions of custom and from their poetic narratives about ritualized encounters between lords and peasants, capturing an oral tradition from an unsophisticated time.Grimm's readings are still used today as a basis for theories about oral socie…
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Weitere Autoren: Grace, Philip (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0881-8
- EAN: 9780812208818
- Produktnummer: 17003021
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'054 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 illus.
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Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace
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