02225    a2200385   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001300151072001600164072001500180072001600195072001400211072001400225072001400239072001400253072001400267072001400281072001400295072002100309072002100330072002100351072002300372100003300395245006900428250000600497260003200503300001000535520127900545999001501824103209333120250317100418.0250312042021GB                   eng    a9781032093338  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aNHD2thema7 aN2thema7 aNHTB2thema7 aDSB2thema7 aDSBF2thema7 a3M2bisac7 aHBJD2bic7 aHBLH2bic7 aHBTB2bic7 aDSBD2bic7 aDSBF2bic7 a3J2bisac7 aHIS0000002bisac7 aHIS0370502bisac7 aHIS0440002bisac7 a305.40949122bisac1 aGuðný Hallgrímsdóttir10aTale of a Fool?bA Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20210630  a194 p  bA Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759. Guðrún worked as a farmhand for most of her adult life, and when she died she left behind a partial autobiography, which is believed to be the oldest autobiography of an Icelandic peasant woman. In this autobiography, Guðrún writes openly about her life and provides colourful depictions of the society in which she lived, providing one of the few first-hand accounts that have survived from members of the peasant class at that time. A Tale of a Fool? demonstrates how it is possible to work with this kind of source using the methods of microhistory as a historical tool to study events and individuals of the past. In doing so, it not only provides an illuminating study of the life of a peasant woman in the 18th and 19th centuries but also addresses the question of the methods, priorities and interpretations applied in the collecting, cataloguing and publication of women’s writing. Analysing the place of the individual in traditional agrarian societies and highlighting the impact that women have had on the cultural and social history of the period, A Tale of a Fool? is ideal for researchers of microhistory and early modern Iceland/Scandinavia.  c3101d3101