TY - CHAP
T1 - The “Old Frisian” Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland’s Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century
AU - Bremmer jr., R.H.
AU - Breuker, Ph.H.
PY - 2024/4/16
Y1 - 2024/4/16
N2 - In 1823, the historian Jacobus Scheltema (1767–1835) published the text of the Frisian Tescklaow, with his learned commentary on it. This document, bearing the date of 1557 but with many elements apparently reaching back to the later Middle Ages, regulated the annual threshing of rapeseed (L. brassica napus). According to Jacobus’s remarks, the law and other documents related to it had been newly discovered by his brother Paulus (1752–1835), and many scholars took Jacobus at his word. Indeed, Paulus’s find soon attracted the enthusiastic support of many esteemed scholars, including Jacob Grimm, who appreciated the Tescklaow for its...
AB - In 1823, the historian Jacobus Scheltema (1767–1835) published the text of the Frisian Tescklaow, with his learned commentary on it. This document, bearing the date of 1557 but with many elements apparently reaching back to the later Middle Ages, regulated the annual threshing of rapeseed (L. brassica napus). According to Jacobus’s remarks, the law and other documents related to it had been newly discovered by his brother Paulus (1752–1835), and many scholars took Jacobus at his word. Indeed, Paulus’s find soon attracted the enthusiastic support of many esteemed scholars, including Jacob Grimm, who appreciated the Tescklaow for its...
U2 - 10.2307/jj.7193919.14
DO - 10.2307/jj.7193919.14
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Studies in Medievalism
SP - 145
EP - 168
BT - Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism
A2 - Fugelso, Karl
PB - Boydell and Brewer Limited
ER -