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An Unpublished Middle High German Banntaiding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Curt F. Bühler
Affiliation:
New York, N. Y
Carl Selmer
Affiliation:
Hunter College

Extract

No less a scholar than Jacob Grimm over a century ago called attention to the inherent value of the German Weistiimer, particularly as outstanding monuments of old local laws. Two decades later, F. I. Mone in a study of these documents emphasized their great age and their connections with the provisions of the Roman law. While these Weistümer (also known as Banntaiding, Ehehafttaiding, Fischtaiding etc.) are common to most parts of the German-speaking territory, relatively only a few of those once extant have come down to us; of these the greatest number by far were originally written in Austria and the Alpine provinces. For this reason the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien set itself the task of publishing all the available local laws for the districts of Salzburg, Tyrol, Styria, Carinthia, Upper and Lower Austria. From the point of view of date, the earliest of these belong to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, though no more than a handful of them have survived. The number of extant Weistümer increases greatly in the fifteenth century, achieves its greatest total in the following century and then gradually declines, till after 1800 the Weistümer disappear entirely.

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1945

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