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Routledge A Tale of a Fool - 18th Century Icelandic Peasant Woman

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A Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Gu run Ketilsdottir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759 who left behind the oldest known autobiography of an Icelandic peasant woman. This microhistory reveals Gu run's experiences as a farmhand and provides rare first-hand accounts of 18th-century peasant society through her own words and colourful depictions of daily life. Published by Routledge, this historical biography offers an invaluable window into the lived experiences of the peasant class during a period when few such personal records survived. The book demonstrates how individual life stories can illuminate broader historical understanding and social structures of the era, making it essential reading for historians, students of social history, and anyone interested in women's history and Icelandic heritage.

Key Features

Gu run Ketilsdottir's partial autobiography forms the core of this microhistory, providing one of the oldest surviving peasant woman's personal accounts from Iceland.

The book includes Gu run's own colourful depictions of 18th-century Icelandic peasant society, offering rare first-hand perspectives from the working class.

Published by Routledge as part of the Microhistories series, this historical biography combines scholarly analysis with intimate personal narrative.

A Tale of a Fool? examines how individual peasant women's lives can reveal broader patterns and structures of historical significance.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
03 April 2019
Listed Since
14 November 2017

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