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Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer ́s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before. Dürer's Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), his time and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jacob Heller over a commission. The story of this paint...
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The Secret in Medieval Literature
The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy tales, but the medieval cases discussed here go far beyond such a simplistic approach to the mysterious dimension of secrets. In fact, as this book argues, medieval poets commonly engaged with alternative forces and described their working...
The Life Course in Old English Poetry
The first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, exploring how poets depicted varied paths through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
"Texte zum Sprechen bringen"
"Texte zum Sprechen bringen" - dies erfordert philologische Genauigkeit ebensowohl wie interpretatorischen Weitblick, beides Tugenden, die Paul Sappler in hervorragendem Maße auszeichnen. Dem hiermit vorgegebenen Leitbild suchen die über 30 Aufsätze der Paul Sappler zu seinem 70. Geburtstag gewidmeten Festschrift nahezukommen. Sie stammen von älteren wie jüngeren Kolleginnen und Kollegen des Jubilars, und ihre Schwerpunkte liegen auf dessen eigenen Interessensgebieten: höfische Lyrik, höfische und heroische sowie Kleinepik, mittelalterliches und frühneuzeitliches Schauspiel, Textedition und Kommentierung, Lexikographie; einzelne Beiträge gehen- durchaus im Sinne von Paul Sappler- über die engeren mediävistischen Fachgrenzen hinaus. Wie sie in ihrer thematischen Breite die Interessenvielfalt des Jubilars spiegeln, so verbinden sie sich alle zu einem polyphonen Ausdruck der Dankbarkeit dafür, dass Paul Sappler sich über Jahrzehnte unermüdlich und nachhaltig für das Fach und nicht zuletzt für die mit ihm gemeinsam Tätigen eingesetzt hat.
The Shapes of Early English Poetry
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
The 1972 Munich Olympics were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. In this cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, the authors set these games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad.
Truth Is Trickiest
At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles. They are notable for many reasons, but one feature in particular has challenged modern readers: their lack of solutions. In Truth Is Trickiest, Jennifer Neville argues that the absence of solutions, rather than being an unfortunate accident, uncovers an essential quality of these texts. In opposition to the general expectation that a successfully solved riddle will have one correct answer, Neville argues that the Exeter Book riddles are written to generate multiple solutions. The correct response to an Exeter Book riddle is not a single, elegant solution but instead an ong...
Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
