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Examining correlations between the material and the mystical, this books investigates collective writing and devotional culture in late medieval piety.
"These essays challenge a once-dominant mode of German medieval studies, "constitutional history." In doing so, they reimage a more dynamic and less hierarchical Middle Ages."—Medieval Review
Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time.
The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European linguistic context.
The legend of Tristan and Isolde -- the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love -- achieved its most complete and profound rendering in the German poet Gottfried von Strassburg's verse romance Tristan (ca. 1200-1210). Along with his great literary rival Wolfram von Eschenbach and his versatile predecessor Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried is considered one of three greatest poets produced by medieval Germany, and over the centuries his Tristan has lost none of its ability to attract with the beauty of its poetry and to challenge -- if not provoke -- with its sympathetic depiction of adulterous love. The essays, written by a dozen leading Gottfried special...
This study addresses the topics of literacy and texuality in order to develop a new line of interpretation for a landmark of Middle High German literature. Albrecht's Der jüngere Titurel is an intellectually ambitious narrative written ca. 1270 as a prequel and sequel to the more famous Arthurian texts by Wolfram von Eschenbach.
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In dieser Reihe werden zum ersten Mal lateinische Handschriften der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek vorgestellt. Der Band bietet Beschreibungen von 95 vollstandigen Handschriften und 110 selbststandigen Fragmenten aus der Zeit zwischen dem 8. und dem 17. Jahrhundert. Obwohl der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt auf theologischen bzw. liturgischen Werken liegt, finden sich zahlreiche juristische sowie medizinische und historische Texte. Einige Bande sind reich illuminiert. Uber die Halfte der hier erschlossenen Codices stammt aus Erfurter Bibliotheken, aus der Kartause Salvatorberg, der Benediktinerabtei auf dem Petersberg oder dem Collegium universitatis. Weitere Bande waren im Vorbesitz des ersten Weimarer Bibliothekars, Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch (1641-1708). Diese Sammlung dokumentiert die kulturgeschichtlichen Interessen des grossherzoglichen Hauses Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach und die Tatigkeit von Goethes Schwager Christian August Vulpius (1762-1827) bei der Erwerbung und Erschliessung der Handschriften.