Medieval Things
Author: Bettina Bildhauer
Publisher: Interventions: New Studies Med
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780814214251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.
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German Literature of the High Middle Ages
Author: Will Hasty
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1571131736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.
The End-times in Medieval German Literature
Author: Ernst Ralf Hintz
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1571139893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
Lanzelet
Author: Ulrich (von Zatzikhoven)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780231128681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new translation of one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story has been prepared with the highest accuracy and scholarly insight available to date. It includes a new introduction and revised bibliography, notes from the first English translation by Webster and the textual changes by famed Arthurian scholar Loomis, and a commentary reflecting the fifty years of scholarship on "Lanzelet" since the publication of Webster's translation.
Medieval German Lyric Verse in English Translation
Author: J. W. Thomas
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781469658490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology contains representative selections from the verse of Minnesingers, nuns, priests, goliards, Spielleute, middle-class singers, and noblemen from the twelfth to the fifteenth century together with historical background, biographical sketches, and comments on individual poems. At the time of its original publication it was the largest such collection in English.
Medieval German Literature
Author: Marion Gibbs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1135956782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature
Author: Vickie L. Ziegler
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781571132918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell 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."
By Women, for Women, about Women
Author: Gertrud Jaron Lewis
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780888441256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeasants and Jews in Medieval Germany
Author: Michael Toch
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781003418443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: literature, verbal attack and the language of mediated settlement of conflicts lead to a nuanced view of social hierarchy, in which the meek too have a say. The next group examines some major elements of rural life, dealing with technology, resources, ecology, transport, communication and credit. In the second part, the author focuses on the life of the Jews in Germany, first charting the process of settlement of Jews in Germany, the dynamics of social stratification and household composition, and the impact of economics and persecution on settlement patterns. A case study uncovers the motives and steps that led up to the expulsion of the Jews of Nuremberg in 1498. These themes are followed up into the early modern period, when German Jewry mostly came to live a village life. The last studies deal with the economic history of medieval European Jews, including professions other than moneylending, and with the function of women in economic life.
Beards and Texts
Author: Sebastian Coxon
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2021-09-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1787352218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeards 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.
