{"product_id":"tale-of-a-fool-paperback-softback","title":"Tale of a Fool? - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eA Tale of a Fool? \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalysing 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, \u003ci\u003eA Tale of a Fool?\u003c\/i\u003e is ideal for researchers of microhistory and early modern Iceland\/Scandinavia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547009147118,"sku":"9781032093338","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/tale-of-a-fool-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}