Title Lords' rights and peasant stories : writing and the formation of tradition in the later Middle Ages / Simon Teuscher ; translated by Philip Grace

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations Series The Middle Ages series Middle Ages series Contents Introduction -- Two Inquiry Procedures -- Dealing with Lordship Rights -- Deposition Records : Techniques of Transcription and Narration -- Weistümer : Microcosms of Law -- Styles of Document Usage -- Conclusion Summary This book suggests rethinking master narratives about transitions from oral to literate societies, examining how village laws (Weistümer) were written down Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index Notes Translated from German Subject Customary law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500 Feudal law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500 Law, Germanic -- History -- To 1500 HISTORY -- Medieval. Customary law Feudal law Law, Germanic Switzerland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011025504 ISBN 9780812208818 0812208811

Other Titles Erzähltes Recht. English

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