Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages

by Simon Teuscher and Philip Grace

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law--called Weist?mer--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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243684
• ISBN13: 9780812243680
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"