LEADER 04575nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910463232403321 005 20220114025839.0 010 $a0-8122-0881-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208818 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418233 035 $a(OCoLC)855713950 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748501 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053301 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11635142 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053301 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113512 035 $a(PQKB)11417614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442112 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26105 035 $a(DE-B1597)449716 035 $a(OCoLC)979631161 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208818 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442112 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748501 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682473 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418233 100 $a20110622d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLords' rights and peasant stories$b[electronic resource] $ewriting and the formation of tradition in the later Middle Ages /$fSimon Teuscher ; translated by Philip Grace 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51191-8 311 0 $a0-8122-4368-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-284) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $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. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aCustomary law$zSwitzerland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aFeudal law$zSwitzerland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLaw, Germanic$xHistory$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCustomary law$xHistory 615 0$aFeudal law$xHistory 615 0$aLaw, Germanic$xHistory 676 $a340.5/5 700 $aTeuscher$b Simon$01049169 701 $aGrace$b Philip$01049170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463232403321 996 $aLords' rights and peasant stories$92477950 997 $aUNINA