Published by K. G. Saur

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das Mittelalter

Autoren und Werke nach Themenkreisen und Gattungen

Edited by: Wolfgang Achnitz

7 vols. incl. index vol.

Overview
Volumes

The Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das Mittelalter covers German literature in the broadest sense from the 8th to the end of the 15th century.

The approximately 6,000 clearly structured articles are arranged according to topic area and genre and are presented chronologically within each category. Introductory essays to each volume provide an overview and place each area in its literary and cultural-historical context. The indices for each volume will be consolidated once the work is completed and published as a separate volume.

The articles inform in a detailed but concise way about each writer's life and work, and about the content, background and reception history of the works, reflecting the latest state of research. Besides sections on tradition, editions and selected translations, a list with the most important secondary literature rounds off each article.

Unique presentation of medieval literature according to its genres and topic areas
Introductory essays to the individual volumes
Most current bio-bibliographical reference work on the Middle Ages
The basis for medieval studies

Author / Editor information

Wolfgang Achnitz, Universität Münster.

Book 2011

Band 1 Das geistliche Schrifttum von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts

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Volume 1 contains an introductory essay by Regina D. Schiewer and covers German-language religious literature and its development from its beginnings to the end of the 13th century, in particular the topics Bible, Apocrypha, hagiography, liturgy and piety, catechesis, pastoral care, sermon, edification, theology/philosophy, monastic life, mysticism, visions and superstition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441400
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24991-4
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44140-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Band 2 Das geistliche Schrifttum des Spätmittelalters

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Volume 2 is introduced by an essay by Werner Williams and Regina D. Schiewer and covers German-language religious literature of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era up to 1500, with special emphasis on the topics Bible, Apocrypha, hagiography, liturgy and piety, catechesis, pastoral care, sermon, edification, theology/philosophy, monastic life, mysticism, visions and superstition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441431
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24994-5
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44143-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Band 3 Reiseberichte und Geschichtsdichtung

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Volume 3 contains works on historical consciousness (e.g. chronicles, biographical writings and historical songs) and spatial experience (e.g. narratives of pilgrims, fictional descriptions of journeys and accounts of real expeditions).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441417
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24992-1
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44141-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Band 4 Lyrik (Minnesang - Sangspruch - Meistergesang) und Dramatik

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Volume 4 contains articles on all secular lyric forms of medieval literature, from the beginnings in 12th century up to the late forms of Meistergesang. References illuminate the lyric forms in the religious writings in volumes 1 and 2. The emerging dramatic forms of medieval literature are also covered, including numerous references to the religious literature in the first two volumes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441424
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24993-8
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44142-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Band 5 Epik (Vers - Strophe - Prosa), und Kleinformen

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The long narrative forms – romances mainly in rhyming couplets or prose and heroic epics in stanzas – take up relatively little space in the fifth volume, which is why the articles on the predominantly secular short forms – tale, fable, Bispel ("comparison"), farce, etc – have been included.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441899
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24995-2
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44189-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Band 6 Das wissensvermittelnde Schrifttum bis zum Ausgang des 14. Jahrhunderts

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Volume 6 contains a rather extensive and very heterogeneous group of medieval texts: German pragmatic literature from the beginnings to the end of the 14th century, except for texts already included in volumes 1–3. For the first time, the texts in the different topic areas (medicine, law, texts of the artes liberales and artes mechanicae, etc.) are presented chronologically.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441905
ISBN:: 978-3-598-24996-9
ISBN:: 978-3-598-44190-5
ISBN:: 9783110386936
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Band 7 Das wissensvermittelnde Schrifttum im 15. Jahrhundert

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Volume 7 contains a rather extensive and very heterogeneous group of medieval texts: German pragmatic literature, except for texts already included in volumes 1–3. For the first time, the texts in the different topic areas (medicine, law, texts of the artes liberales and artes mechanicae, etc.) are presented chronologically.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110367454
ISBN:: 9783110361933
ISBN:: 9783110367454
ISBN:: 9783110392593
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Band 8 Nachträge, Chronologie und Register

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Volume 8 provides a chronology of German literature in the Middle Ages, statistics concerning this chronology, an index of medieval authors and writers in the German-speaking world, a comprehensive index of persons and work titles, and material to supplement the previous volumes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441912
ISBN:: 9783598441912
ISBN:: 9783598249976
ISBN:: 9783110390827
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter