02220 a2200385 4500 1351668102 20250317111639.0 250312042019GB 37 eng 9781351668101 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng NHD thema N thema NHTB thema DSB thema DSBF thema 3M bisac HBJD bic HBLH bic HBTB bic DSBD bic DSBF bic 3J bisac HIS000000 bisac HIS037050 bisac HIS044000 bisac 305.4094912 bisac Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman 1 Oxford Routledge 20190314 194 p A 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. 7476 7476