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"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 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 unco nscious effects of their writing practices"--Provided by publisher.

Customary law --- Feudal law --- Law, Germanic --- Germanic law --- Droit féodal --- Feudalism --- Law, Feudal --- Land tenure --- Customs (Law) --- Folk law --- Usage and custom (Law) --- Social norms --- Common law --- Time immemorial (Law) --- History --- Law --- Law and legislation --- Law, Primitive --- Traditional law --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Habsburg [Dynasty] --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Conferences - Meetings

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Families --- Kinship --- Intergenerational relations --- Transnationalism. --- Ethnicity. --- History. --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1120 --- #SBIB:314H240 --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Gezinssociologie: historische studies over het gezin voor 1900 --- Nuptialiteit en gezin --- Ethnicity --- Transnationalism --- History --- Famille --- Parenté --- Relations entre générations --- Transnationalisme --- Ethnicité --- Histoire --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Parenté --- Relations entre générations --- Ethnicité

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While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, "transnational families" are to be found long be

Families --- Kinship --- Intergenerational relations --- Transnationalism. --- Ethnicity. --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- History. --- Europe --- Social life and customs.