Medieval German Literature
Title | Medieval German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Gibbs |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135956782 |
This comprehensive survey examines Germanic literature from the eighth century to the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time.
Medieval Things
Title | Medieval Things PDF eBook |
Author | Bettina Bildhauer |
Publisher | Interventions: New Studies Med |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780814214251 |
Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.
The End-times in Medieval German Literature
Title | The End-times in Medieval German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Ralf Hintz |
Publisher | Camden House |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571139893 |
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
German Literature of the High Middle Ages
Title | German Literature of the High Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Will Hasty |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571131736 |
New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.
Beards and Texts
Title | Beards and Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Coxon |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2021-09-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1787352218 |
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in didactic poetry concerned with wisdom, teaching and learning, and in comedic texts that were designed to make their audiences laugh, not least by submitting various figure-types to the indignity of having their beards manhandled. Four main chapters each offer a reading of a work or poetic tradition of particular significance (Pfaffe Konrad’s Rolandslied; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm; ‘Sangspruchdichtung’; Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring), before examining cognate material of various kinds, including sources or later versions of the same story, manuscript variants and miniatures and further relevant beard-motifs from the same period. The book concludes by reviewing the portrayal of Jesus in vernacular German literature, which represents a special test-case in the literary history of beards. As the first study of its kind in medieval German studies, this investigation submits beard-motifs to sustained and detailed analysis in order to shed light both on medieval poetic techniques and the normative construction of masculinity in a wide range of literary genres.
Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature
Title | Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Vickie L. Ziegler |
Publisher | Camden House |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781571132918 |
Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."
The Arthur of the Germans
Title | The Arthur of the Germans PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786837374 |
From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century. This title deals with this topic.