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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812208818
035 _a(DE-B1597)449716
035 _a(OCoLC)855713950
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aHIS037010
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082 0 4 _a340.5/5
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTeuscher, Simon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aLords' Rights and Peasant Stories :
_bWriting and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages /
_cSimon Teuscher.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b5 illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aThe Middle Ages Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Two Inquiry Procedures --
_tChapter 2. Dealing with Lordship Rights --
_tChapter 3. Deposition Records: Techniques of Transcription and Narration --
_tChapter 4. Weistümer: Microcosms of Law --
_tChapter 5. Styles of Document Usage --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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 societies in the premodern West and contemporary non-Western societies and the modernizing effects of writing. As Simon Teuscher contends, however, those aspects of legal texts that have been considered since Grimm to be vestiges of a traditional preliterate popular culture were eventually rooted in relatively advanced and learned techniques of writing, jurisprudence, and administration. Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories uses examples from German- and French-speaking Switzerland to investigate what legal order meant to individuals and to a society at the eve of the early modern period. Teuscher deals with legal documents not only as texts, but also as objects. The book takes the materiality of documents seriously and reconstructs cultural techniques of their production and social practices of their use.Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories suggests the need to rethink master narratives about transitions from oral to literate societies. It explores the local dimensions of processes of state-formation and the emergence of modern notions of law in western Europe. Students of rural society and village organization will find here a discussion of local power distribution that is inspired by social anthropology, that looks beyond simple antagonisms between lords and peasants, and that insists on the role of state servants and the unconscious effects of their writing practices.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aCustomary law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500.
650 0 _aFeudal law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500.
650 0 _aLaw, Germanic -- History -- To 1500.
650 4 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Medieval.
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653 _aHistory.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
700 1 _aGrace, Philip
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208818
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208818
856 4 2 _3Cover
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