Periodic Reporting for period 1 - VehmeLit (Legal Cultures and Literary Trials in the Age of Goethe. The Vehmic Court Motif in Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspective)

The VehmeLit project aimed at a first systematic analysis of the development of the Vehmic Court motif in German literature of the Age of Goethe. By complementing the study of canonical works with previously neglected novels and plays by ‘minor’ or anonymous writers, the...