series: Trends in Medieval Philology

Published by De Gruyter

Trends in Medieval Philology

Edited by: Ingrid Kasten, Niklaus Largier and Mireille Schnyder

ISSN: 1612-443X

Overview
Volumes

The series in German medieval studies includes central topics of current research debates in medieval studies and provides a place for groundbreaking research in the field. The series is intended to give international researchers/research teams the opportunity to effectively present innovative surveys and discussions to the scientific community. The series sees itself as a ‘young’ research forum with a high standard of quality and is therefore also open to excellent degree theses, should they enhance the series.

book: Wettkämpfe in Literaturen und Kulturen des Mittelalters

Book 2023

Wettkämpfe in Literaturen und Kulturen des Mittelalters

Riskante Formen und Praktiken zwischen Kreativität und Zerstörung

Bent Gebert

Volume 43 in this series

The studies in this volume shed light on phenomena of competition from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages from various medieval studies disciplines – from history and art history to Old German, English, and Latin. At the center is the question of their risky potential: to what extent do premodern agonal forms and practices put the orders that they produce on the line?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110774962
ISBN:: 9783110774962
ISBN:: 9783110775013
ISBN:: 9783110774603
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählte Oratorik

Book 2022

Erzählte Oratorik

Politische Rede in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Spätmittelalters

Malena Ratzke

Volume 42 in this series

Medieval German narratives often link the problems associated with sovereignty and social order to the demonstration of rhetorical competence, presenting eloquence as a central condition of successful rule. This volume examines narrative stagings of political oratory using the example of Ulrich’s von Etzenbach Alexander Romance, Ottokar’s von Steiermark Steirischer Reimchronik (Styrian Rhymed Chronicle), and Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754711
ISBN:: 9783110754711
ISBN:: 9783110754742
ISBN:: 9783110753240
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Rhetoric
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Persuasionsstrategien im vormodernen Theater (14.–16. Jh.)

Book 2022

Persuasionsstrategien im vormodernen Theater (14.–16. Jh.)

Eine semiotische Analyse religiöser Spiele im deutschen und französischen Sprachraum

Carlotta Posth

Volume 41 in this series

Which means were employed in religious plays to convince audiences of their religious and political messages? This comparatist study makes use of an innovative methodology in order to examine how passion plays and eschatological plays in the German- and French-speaking worlds construed and perpetuated anti-Jewish and anti-protestant tropes and stereotypes, and utilized authority for the legitimation purposes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740486
ISBN:: 9783110740486
ISBN:: 9783110740554
ISBN:: 9783110737257
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
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book: Erzählte Ordnungen – Ordnungen des Erzählens

Book Open Access 2021

Erzählte Ordnungen – Ordnungen des Erzählens

Studien zu Texten vom Mittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit

Daniela Fuhrmann, Pia Selmayr, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 40 in this series

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By unfurling worlds, narratives also create orders. In addition, their narration has to be structured in an orderly way, so the concept of "order" can be applied to literary texts in two ways: as the order(s) of narration and as narrated order(s).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729115
ISBN:: 9783110729115
ISBN:: 9783110721188
ISBN:: 9783110729160
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Monster als Medien literarischer Selbstreflexion

Book 2019

Monster als Medien literarischer Selbstreflexion

Untersuchungen zu Hartmanns von Aue 'Iwein', Heinrichs von dem Türlin 'Crône' und Johanns von Würzburg 'Wilhelm von Österreich'

Constanze Geisthardt

Volume 38 in this series

Monsters play a fascinating and multi-faceted role in medieval literature. Compared with their plot-related tasks as guardians, adversaries, messengers, helpers, or companions to the hero, their role in literary self-reflection has so far been neglected. This study analyzes that role, drawing on both medieval discourse and recent media theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345353
ISBN:: 9783110345353
ISBN:: 9783110345278
ISBN:: 9783110383867
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählte mediale Prozesse

Book 2020

Erzählte mediale Prozesse

Medientheoretische Perspektiven auf den "Reinfried von Braunschweig" und den "Apollonius von Tyrland"

Britta Maria Wittchow

Volume 37 in this series

This study examines the intense preoccupation with presenting medial processes evidenced in the love-and-adventure romances Reinfried von Braunschweig and Appolonius von Tyrland. Based on close attention to the emerging discourse on media theory and the narrative potential of medial narrative elements, the author examines how medial form can overcome spatial, temporal, and spherical obstacles between potential communication partners.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110628913
ISBN:: 9783110628913
ISBN:: 9783110628227
ISBN:: 9783110628418
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vater-Tochter-Inzest in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

Book 2019

Vater-Tochter-Inzest in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

Nora Hagemann

Volume 36 in this series

The study examines the link between father-daughter incest and emotions in medieval and early modern literature, a theme only marginally researched to date. By engaging in discourse about this taboo notion, it develops a set of theoretical and methodical tools that allow for the historically adequate and sophisticated literary analysis of emotions within and beyond the texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618440
ISBN:: 9783110618440
ISBN:: 9783110615609
ISBN:: 9783110617047
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprechen und Erzählen beim Stricker

Book Open Access 2018

Sprechen und Erzählen beim Stricker

Kommunikative Formate in mittelhochdeutschen Kurzerzählungen

Nina Nowakowski

Volume 35 in this series

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This study traces the poetics and narrative style of the Stricker’s epics back to the communicative pragmatics of their time. It analyzes depictions of counselling, dispute, and religious speech using approaches from communication theory, narratology, and the history of mediality. In this way, the study links a new interpretation of the Middle High German short story with ideas about the methods of literary theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110576146
ISBN:: 9783110576146
ISBN:: 9783110574500
ISBN:: 9783110568714
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

Book 2017

Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

Brittany Erin Schorn

Volume 34 in this series

While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549799
ISBN:: 9783110549799
ISBN:: 9783110548174
ISBN:: 9783110548310
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Scandinavian Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Performing Manuscript Culture

Book 2016

Performing Manuscript Culture

Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve’s "Regement of Princes"

Elisabeth Kempf

Volume 33 in this series

This study conceives of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes (1410-1413) as an essentially performative text, one that expresses its awareness of the manuscript culture in which it is so firmly rooted. The openness of manuscripts is a recurring subject in the Regement and is not only expressed through mere descriptions of, but through complex references to this manuscript context.

Performances of manuscript culture manifest themselves in several aspects of the text. The first is the narrator persona, and especially the question of how persona and text are intertwined. The second is the constantly recurring interpretation of quotes from authoritative sources that pervades the Regement. This urge to interpret is expressed both in the tradition of adding marginal glosses and in the process of subjecting the text to an exegetical reading. The third aspect is the relation between text and images in the Regement’s manuscripts, which shows how mediality is performed and how the manuscript context is made the focus of this performance. In this monograph, all of these aspects are studied in a mindset that combines the concept of performativity with the postulations of Material Philology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523089
ISBN:: 9783110523089
ISBN:: 9783110522587
ISBN:: 9783110522457
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Verkörperungen von Herrschaft

Book 2016

Verkörperungen von Herrschaft

Zorn und Macht in Texten des 12. Jahrhunderts

Evamaria Freienhofer

Volume 32 in this series

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in anger as a literary and societal phenomenon. Delving into this topic, this work examines the ways that 12^th century authors functionalized rage for their narratives of power and rule. An innovative aspect of the work is its cross-genre examination of texts that can be seen as key conceptualizations of early statehood.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110472066
ISBN:: 9783110472066
ISBN:: 9783110470918
ISBN:: 9783110470833
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Flesh and Word

Book 2016

Flesh and Word

Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Early Irish Literature

Sarah Künzler

Volume 31 in this series

Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, but comparatively few studies exist about Old Norse-Icelandic or early Irish literature. This study aims to redress this imbalance and presents carefully contextualised close readings of medieval texts. The chapters focus on the role of bodies in mediality discourse in various contexts: that of identity in relation to ideas about self and other, of inscribed and marked skin and of natural bodily matters such as defecation, urination and menstruation. By carefully discussing the sources in their cultural contexts, it becomes apparent that medieval Scandinavian and early Irish texts present their very own ideas about bodies and their role in structuring the narrated worlds of the texts. The study presents one of the first systematic examinations of bodies in these two literary traditions in terms of body criticism and emphasises the ingenuity and complexity of medieval texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455878
ISBN:: 9783110455878
ISBN:: 9783110455380
ISBN:: 9783110455427
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Scandinavian Literature
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ambiguität im Mittelalter

Book 2016

Ambiguität im Mittelalter

Formen zeitgenössischer Reflexion und interdisziplinärer Rezeption

Oliver Auge, Christiane Witthöft

Volume 30 in this series

The importance of ambiguity has received little attention until now in the reception of medieval culture and literature or as a focus of research. These proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference evoke the broad range of discourses and intellectual contexts relevant to ambiguity. The authors examine phenomena of ambiguity and polysemy in their literary and cultural contexts to question the supposed absence of ambiguity in medieval culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435344
ISBN:: 9783110435344
ISBN:: 9783111026145
ISBN:: 9783110442243
ISBN:: 9783110433913
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Göttliche Stimme, irdische Schrift

Book 2016

Göttliche Stimme, irdische Schrift

Dante, Petrarca und Caterina da Siena

Cornelia Wild

Volume 29 in this series

Previous interpretations of the canonical texts of the Trecento adopted the perspectives of their male subjects. For the first time, this study presents a reading of the poetic figurations of female voices. In their songs, voices, and speeches, the protagonists Beatrice, Laura, and Catherine of Siena open their own perspective for interpretation. The study also makes a major contribution to the history of voice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428162
ISBN:: 9783110428162
ISBN:: 9783110437713
ISBN:: 9783110428230
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählen im Raum

Book 2015

Erzählen im Raum

Die Erzeugung virtueller Räume im Erzählakt höfischer Epik

Silvan Wagner

Volume 28 in this series

Far from being a modern invention, virtual space is a characteristic element of the courtly epic of the High Middle Ages. The performative act of narration engenders two virtual spaces, the narrative space and the space of the story, which only last as long as the literary communication and only exist for the participants. Literary space is thus closely intertwined with the act of narration, which is reflected in the stories themselves.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428100
ISBN:: 9783110437591
ISBN:: 9783110428100
ISBN:: 9783110428209
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Rezeptionskulturen

Book 2012

Rezeptionskulturen

Fünfhundert Jahre literarischer Mittelalterrezeption zwischen Kanon und Populärkultur

Mathias Herweg, Stefan Keppler-Tasaki

Volume 27 in this series

Hardly anything has been more influential in forming the modern era's definition of itself than its relation to the “pre-modern”. That is why medieval reception constitutes a central discursive space on the formation of cultural identity of individuals and cultural systems. Ranging from humanism to the present and from Jörg Wickram to Dan Brown, this volume considers basic questions on the forms and functions of the reception of the Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110264999
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026498-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026499-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lachen und Schweigen

Book 2016

Lachen und Schweigen

Grenzen und Lizenzen der Kommunikation in der Erzählliteratur des Mittelalters

Werner Röcke, Hans Rudolf Velten

Volume 26 in this series

This volume presents contributions about laughter and silence as special forms of communication in medieval and early modern literature. Laughter and silence question what has been said or confirm it, frame or reflect it. This volume examines various dialogic strategies of laughter and silence, covering court romances and heroic epics as well as medieval short stories and travelogues.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254006
ISBN:: 9783110254006
ISBN:: 9783110385205
ISBN:: 9783110253993
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: (Dis-)Artikulationen von Begehren

Book 2011

(Dis-)Artikulationen von Begehren

Schweigeeffekte in wissenschaftlichen und literarischen Texten

Beatrice Michaelis

Volume 25 in this series

Scientific and literary representations of a knowledge of desire, sex and bodies are characterized by a coincidence of speech and silence. This monograph studies the forms and effects of this coincidence which is captured in the term ‘(dis)articulation’. It is not a question of absolute silence or continuous speech, but rather a dialectical combination of refraining from speaking and speaking, which through the intention to remain silent brings forth a specific form of speaking ‑ (dis)articulation ‑ as silence effect.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254846
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025493-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025484-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Machtvolle Gefühle

Book 2010

Machtvolle Gefühle

Ingrid Kasten

Volume 24 in this series

Feelings not only determine our everyday life, they have also become a central theme of humanistic and scientific research. This volume offers exemplary insights into the methods of emotion research. Among other emotions, the presentation of anger, fear, fascination and laughter is explored in individual analyses, along with how emotions function in medieval literary texts. Taken together, the contributions provide important insights on the cultural modeling of feelings and into processes of historical transformation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251425
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025141-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025142-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Höfisches Erzählen von Gott

Book 2011

Höfisches Erzählen von Gott

Funktion und narrative Entfaltung des Religiösen in Wolframs ‘Parzival’

Susanne Knaeble

Volume 23 in this series

Religion is probably one of the most important themes in courtly narratives. The religious ideas in Parzival have often been studied, but not with respect to their narratological concept. This study seeks to explore how it is possible to refer to God at all in a medieval courtly text and to methodically elucidate the intersection of religion and literature as an important narrative element in Parzival.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110234749
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023473-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023474-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vernacular Theology

Book 2013

Vernacular Theology

Dominican Sermons and Audience in Late Medieval Italy

Eliana Corbari

Volume 22 in this series

This book examines the audiences and languages of Dominican sermons in late medieval Italy. It is a thorough analysis of how Latinate theological culture interacted with popular religious devotion. In particular it assesses the role of vernacular theology. Eliana Corbari defines vernacular theology as a form of theology that is based neither on a Latin scholastic model nor a monastic one. It is a “third dimension” of theology which was accessible to the laity, and in particular women, through their attendance at sermons and the reading of vernacular devotional works (in this case, medieval Italian treatises and sermons). Through painstaking manuscript work, Corbari makes an excellent contribution to sermon studies, gender studies, medieval theology, and codicology. She demonstrates that Dominican friars preached to an active contingent of laywomen, usually members of confraternities, who not only attended these sermons but re-read them and also disseminated them through book production to the wider Florentine community.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240337
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024032-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024033-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Scham und Schamlosigkeit

Book 2011

Scham und Schamlosigkeit

Grenzverletzungen in Literatur und Kultur der Vormoderne

Katja Gvozdeva, Hans Rudolf Velten

Volume 21 in this series

Shame and shamelessness are subject to different conditions for their enactment: While shame manifests bodily what the individual wants to hide, shamelessness by contrast appears as ostentation. However, both have in common the status of the staged and perceived boundary violation. From this action-oriented perspective, the essays in this interdisciplinary book explore the different forms of staging and functions of shame and shamelessness in literature, art, theater and the social communication of the Early Modern Age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225563
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022555-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022556-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Disputatio 1200–1800

Book 2010

Disputatio 1200–1800

Form, Funktion und Wirkung eines Leitmediums universitärer Wissenskultur

Marion Gindhart, Ursula Kundert

Volume 20 in this series

A disputation is an academic debate with fixed rules. Both in oral and written form it was a characteristic feature of university life of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. As genre and interaction model, it had an impact even outside the universities. The articles in this book illuminate different aspects of the disputation in the period between 1200 and 1800.
This book examines the developmental lines and features of the genre, its knowledge-conveying, social and denominational-political functions as well as its relationship to other media: to the German dialogue- and narrative literature of the Middle Ages, academic humorous speeches, Latin textbooks or German-French disputes of the Early Modern Age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227116
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022710-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022711-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Historische Narratologie – Mediävistische Perspektiven

Book 2010

Historische Narratologie – Mediävistische Perspektiven

Harald Haferland, Matthias Meyer, Carmen Stange, Markus Greulich

Volume 19 in this series

Narratology has experienced a boom in the past two decades. Narratologists have developed a differentiated set of instruments to describe narrative techniques and forms in modern and contemporary literature. This book explores whether this set of instruments can also be used to analyze older texts, using examples from medieval German literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226263
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022625-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022626-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Book Open Access 2010

Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture

Manuele Gragnolati, Almut Suerbaum

Volume 18 in this series

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The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of ‛voice’ in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222470
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022246-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022247-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Nibelungische Intertextualität

Book 2009

Nibelungische Intertextualität

Generationenbeziehungen und genealogische Strukturen in der Heldenepik des Spätmittelalters

Gunda Lange

Volume 17 in this series

This study explores the very topical subject of intergenerational relationships in four heroic epics ("Kudrun" "The Great Rose Garden", "Biterolf and Dietleib", "Hürnen Seyfrid"), which make reference to the Nibelungenlied [Song of the Nibelungs] written around 1200, in particular to the figure of Kriemhild. The analysis covers aspects of family history and also genealogical and gender-specific aspects. The intertextual relationship of these four epics to the Nibelungenlied is also elucidated from a text generation perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221428
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022141-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022142-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lyrische Narrationen – narrative Lyrik

Book 2011

Lyrische Narrationen – narrative Lyrik

Gattungsinterferenzen in der mittelalterlichen Literatur

Hartmut Bleumer, Caroline Emmelius

Volume 16 in this series

The volume is devoted to the relations, interrelations and interferences between narrative and lyric texts. Firstly it contains literary theory chapters on the possibilities of analysing lyric poetry from a narratological perspective, and then it presents and discusses historical case studies from medieval European literature which give a practical demonstration of the paradoxical interrelationships between narrative structure and lyrical quality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110215922
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021593-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021592-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Philomela

Book 2009

Philomela

Metamorphosen eines Mythos in der deutschen und französischen Literatur des Mittelalters

Lena Behmenburg

Volume 15 in this series

The study takes German and French texts to examine the development of the Philomela myth in the vernacular from the 12th to the 16th centuries. For this, it also considers Ovid's Philomela and its after-life in its medieval adaptations. Working from the individual literary studies, content nodes of the myth are analysed and their variance presented comparatively. Particular weight is attached here to the motif of weaving, as this is accorded central significance within the Philomela myth.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217148
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020464-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021714-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Riten, Gesten, Zeremonien

Book 2008

Riten, Gesten, Zeremonien

Gesellschaftliche Symbolik in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Edgar Bierende, Sven Bretfeld, Klaus Oschema

Volume 14 in this series

Ritualised action – the use of gestures and ceremonial processes – were a central means of creating and expressing social order in pre-modern societies in particular. The present volume is divided into the three core areas of liturgy, law and politics and presents an interdisciplinary view of selected aspects of the arrangement and effect of rituals. An introductory section uses exemplars to present fundamental methodological questions from the perspectives of art history, theatre history and historiology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210897
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020802-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021089-7
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Schrift und Liebe in der Kultur des Mittelalters

Book 2008

Schrift und Liebe in der Kultur des Mittelalters

Mireille Schnyder

Volume 13 in this series

Despite some tendencies in more recent research, there is still a need for a close linking of research in the history of emotionality with questions in media theory. This is the starting point for the present volume, which enquires into the effects on contemporary concepts of love of the "scriptorality" of European culture in the period from the 11th to 15th centuries. The various papers on medieval Latin, German and Italian literature focus not only on the materiality and pragmatics of the medium, but also the concept of mediality and the written tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207286
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020315-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020728-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das fremde Schöne

Book 2007

Das fremde Schöne

Dimensionen des Ästhetischen in der Literatur des Mittelalters

Manuel Braun, Christopher John Young

Volume 12 in this series

The concept of the aesthetic is a modern one, not however the phenomenon of the aesthetic. Thus the collected papers in this volume set out to discover important dimensions of the aesthetic in medieval literature. In this endeavour they inquire into the relationship of aesthetics and religion as well as into that between aesthetics and rhetoric, and they search for relevant concepts and modes of presentation in the literary texts themselves. These various components combine to form an ‘aesthetics of alterity’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891775
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019350-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089177-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Rhetoric
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Transformationen des Religiösen

Book 2007

Transformationen des Religiösen

Performativität und Textualität im geistlichen Spiel

Ingrid Kasten, Erika Fischer-Lichte

Volume 11 in this series

The religious plays found in many European cultures from the Middle Ages up until the modern age are closely related to devout practices and draw their subjects from worship, the bible and legends. The contributions to this interdisciplinary anthology take a look at religious plays as cultural performances and as part of a multimedia devout practice. The articles investigate the position of these plays within the culture of medieval daily life and festivity, the relationship between the spiritual and the secular, and the staging of cultural structural models in the plays.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110921731
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019340-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092173-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Im Wortfeld des Textes

Book 2006

Im Wortfeld des Textes

Worthistorische Beiträge zu den Bezeichnungen von Rede und Schrift im Mittelalter

Gerd Dicke, Manfred Eikelmann, Burkhard Hasebrink

Volume 10 in this series

This volume is devoted to an historical lexical and conceptual analysis of poetological expressions in German medieval literature, expressions such as schrift (‛script’, ‛writing’), rede (‛speech’), buoch (‛book’), tihtaere (‛poet’), vindaere (‛purveyor’ [‛of wild tales’]), hœren (‛hear’), lesen (‛read’), erniuwen (‛renew’), voltihten (‛compose’), etc. Despite individual studies, these terms, which are of central importance in medieval texts, yet are only vaguely defined in them, have largely been neglected by researchers and have hardly ever been presented as a connected system. However, these terms do open the way to an understanding of central aspects of medieval views of literature and of the historical conception of works and authors.

The volume presents a collection of papers by renowned medievalists on key terms and items in medieval poetics and historical semantics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919233
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018328-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091923-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Textkritik als Problem der Kulturwissenschaft

Book 2006

Textkritik als Problem der Kulturwissenschaft

Tristan-Lektüren

Martin Baisch

Volume 9 in this series

This study critically examines previous approaches to textual criticism and editorship, and using the "Parzival" ms. Cgm 19 and the "Tristan" ms. Cgm51 develops the argument that every medieval version of a text possesses inherent value and represents the cultural knowledge of its age and that this can only be appreciated if divergent mss. are not simply seen as deficient variants of an 'original text'. Through an analysis of the historical contexts of text function, Baisch defines the origins, status, and function of textual variation in the medieval vernacular transmission of texts and provides a methodology for joining edition and interpretation. He sees textual criticism as a functional history of the transmission of medieval texts. The study makes an important contribution to the present lively debate on the principles of modern editorship and the medieval concept of text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927214
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018568-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092721-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Trauer und Identität

Book 2006

Trauer und Identität

Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Elke Koch

Volume 8 in this series

The study provides a foundation for cultural anthropologists researching the representation of grief in German medieval literature. It examines how the phenomenon of grief in fictional texts can be defined in terms of the theory of emotions and then operationalised; it combines the theory of emotions with performative categories, i.e., with our modern knowledge of ritual and public life in the Middle Ages. The setting and function of grief are closely examined in Wolfram's 'Willehalm', Hartmann's 'Erec' and Gottfried's 'Tristan'. This is a seminal study, combining cultural studies with textual analysis. It provides a usable methodological foundation for all future work on representations of grief in medieval literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920604
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018570-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092060-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Texttyp und Textproduktion in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Book 2005

Texttyp und Textproduktion in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Elizabeth Andersen, Manfred Eikelmann, Anne Simon

Volume 7 in this series

The volume presents a collection of papers by noted German and British medievalists, who join the discussion on the concept of text in German Medieval Studies. This topic has been intensively discussed in recent years, as new insights from editorial philology, narratology, and media theory have led to 'medieval text' becoming an open and methodologically elusive concept. The contributors weigh the theoretical arguments and apply the methodological outcome to text exemplars from the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915662
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018336-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091566-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mittelalter im Film

Book 2006

Mittelalter im Film

Christian Kiening, Heinrich Adolf

Volume 6 in this series

This volume offers a comprehensive account and documentation of the way the Middle Ages have been presented in the medium of film. It is arranged as a compendium, contains a comprehensive introduction, and treats all aspects of cinematic images of medieval times (myths, heroes, materials, the presentation of violence, the image of women etc.). It thus documents a particularly important source of our popular contemporary view of the Middle Ages. A comprehensive filmography assembles all the important films on the Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922615
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018315-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092261-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Other Genres
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Übertragungen

Book 2005

Übertragungen

Formen und Konzepte von Reproduktion in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Britta Bußmann, Albrecht Hausmann, Annelie Kreft, Cornelia Logemann

Volume 5 in this series

In medieval and early modern times, scribes, painters, illustrators, translators and authors obviously had specific ideas of what was meant by fidelity to the original; the modern observer frequently regards their transfers as imprecise and wilful. It would, however, be too simple to speak of a 'typically medieval' manner of reproduction.

The papers in this volume show that the only sensible approach is to differentiate between the various forms and concepts of reproduction in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. The interdisciplinarity of this volume results in a complex picture that brings out the different nature of medieval 'transfers' because it considers the particularity of each case. The volume sees itself as a contribution to a cultural history of artistic reproduction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901344
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018339-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090134-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lachgemeinschaften

Book 2005

Lachgemeinschaften

Kulturelle Inszenierungen und soziale Wirkungen von Gelächter im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

Werner Röcke, Hans Rudolf Velten

Volume 4 in this series

The volume presents a collection of studies by internationally acknowledged medievalists on the phenomenon of laughter and its literary, social and emotional functions in the Middle Ages. The papers investigate the forms and representations of laughter in medieval literature and society and inquire into its role in the creation of communities and the depiction of figures in fictional texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907117
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018236-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090711-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ekphrasis

Book 2003

Ekphrasis

Kunstbeschreibungen und virtuelle Räume in der Literatur des Mittelalters

Haiko Wandhoff

Volume 3 in this series

The reader of an artistic description (ecphrasis) is subjected to a constant oscillation between the text and the image. Using various examples, the present study examines the insights which medieval literary works open up to their readers by continually inserting descriptions of pictures and architecture into the linear flow of narrative texts. Wandhoff attempts to reconstruct a history of ecphrasis, which extends from the epics of antiquity to the post-classic courtly romance at the end of the 13th century.

The argumentation is led by three principal concepts - the analysis of literary descriptions as memorial pictures, as reflections of the visual in the verbal or the macro-narrative in the micro-narrative, or as a virtual display.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896275
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017938-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089627-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Präsenz des Mythos

Book 2004

Präsenz des Mythos

Konfigurationen einer Denkform in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Udo Friedrich, Bruno Quast

Volume 2 in this series

The volume presents papers on the subject of "Myths in the Middle Ages", and harnesses the theoretical discussions on the concept of myth for German medieval studies. It is divided into three sections, which stand for various methodological approaches: I. Myth and Christianity, II. Myth and Narrative, III. Myth and Presence. The outcome is that the Middle Ages developed (narrative) strategies on different levels for dealing with mythical material.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905755
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017801-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090575-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages

Book 2003

Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages

C. Stephen Jaeger, Ingrid Kasten

Volume 1 in this series

Historical research into emotionality is at present generally enjoying an heightened level of interest. This bilingual volume documents the proceedings of an international conference, discussing current paradigms and perspectives in historical literary research into emotions and heightening awareness of the mediality of cultures of emotion in historical change. The discussion of methodological questions opens up avenues for interdisciplinary research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110893977
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017834-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089397-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Neid und soziale Ordnung

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Neid und soziale Ordnung

Diskurse, Strukturen, Narrative

Eva Lieberich

Volume 44 in this series

Unlike older research, which viewed jealousy as a democratic emotion, this study examines how envy functions in twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts. In cross-genre text analyses, it shows how the narration of envy is used to steer reception and as a medium in which to reflect upon the courtly order. The volume thereby makes a contribution to the debate about the revaluation of so-called negative emotions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111202105
ISBN:: 9783111202105
ISBN:: 9783111202907
ISBN:: 9783111179155
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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