Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-326
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Early Modern France ◽  
Modern France

scholarly journals The Tyranny of the Gingerbread House: Contextualising the Fear of Wolves in Medieval Northern Europe through Material Culture, Ecology and Folklore

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Aleks Pluskowski
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Ecological Context ◽  
Early Modern France ◽  
Archaeological Interpretation ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
Modern France

In this paper, I propose to contextualise the popular perception ofthe "fairy tale wolf" as a window into a normative past, by focusing on responses to this animal in Britain and southern Scandinavia from the 8th to the 14th centuries, drawing on archaeological, artistic and written sources. These responses are subsequently juxtaposed with the socio-ecological context of the concept of the "fairy tale wolf" in early modern France. At a time when folklore is being increasingly incorporated into archaeological interpretation, I suggest that alternative understandings ofhuman relations with animals must be rooted in specific ecological and social contexts.

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