 | Lords'' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Subjects: Customary law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500; Feudal law -- Switzerland -- History -- To 1500; Law Germanic -- History -- To 1500; Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories suggests rethinking master narratives about transitions from oral to literate societies, examining how village laws (Weistümer) were written down. Simon Teuscher is Professor of History at the University of Zurich. |
