This handbook introduces key elements of the philological research area called paremiology (the study of proverbs). It presents the main subject area as well as

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the worl

Demonstrates how proverbs and to a lesser extent proverbial expressions, have played a significant role in political life during the 20th century. Takes as majo