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Die Gastprofessur für Germanische Philologie an der Universität Freiburg, Schweiz ist mit dem Namen Wolfgang Stammler verbunden, der von 1951 - 1957 den Freiburger Lehrstuhl seines Faches innehatte und von hier aus unter anderem seine 'Deutsche Philologie im Aufriß' erscheinen ließ.
Die Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Gastprofessur sind der von den Brüdern Grimm begründeten und von Wolfgang Stammler erneuerten weiten Auffassung des Faches als Wissenschaft von den Zeugnissen der mittelalterlichen Kultur in deutscher Sprache und ihrem materiellen und geistigen Umfeld verpflichtet. Die Gastprofessur umfasst Vorlesungen oder Blockseminare, in denen ein Hauptarbeitsgebiet des Gastes in seiner Bedeutung für die Integration mediävistischer Themen und Disziplinen vorgestellt wird.
Die Veranstaltungen fügen sich ein in die Arbeit des Mediävistischen Institutes der Universität Freiburg, das deshalb die Eröffnungsvorträge der Gastprofessoren in dieser Reihe herausgibt.
Ab dem Jahr 2014 wird die renommierte mediävistische Reihe beim Reichert Verlag fortgesetzt.
Until now, the ways that Medieval Catholic Christianity perceived other religions (Paganism, Islam, Judaism) has never been the subject of a systematic and comparative study. This publication, which emerged from a project funded by the European Research Council, brings together important research findings to compare Christian perceptions of other religions. It also opens up new perspectives on Christian self-understanding.
The diagrammatic mode is an important feature of medieval religious art. This book examines one of the most spectacular examples, the series of radial diagrams accompanying the manuscripts of ‛De missarum mysteriis’ one of the most influential commentaries on the liturgy of the Mass, written in Rome between 1195 and 1197 by Lothar of Segni (ca. 1160–1216), shortly before his election as Pope Innocent III.
Whereas the medieval minnelied speaks of the unfulfilled wooing of an unapproachable lady, the modern love song deals with the chequered relationship of a lover with his beloved. The present study is the first to enquire into the different literary and historical factors which led to the minnelied being superseded by the love song and to the love song's success in the modern age. Contrary to what was maintained by previous research, these transition processes can be traced back to the first half of the 14th century.
Bildercodex D is among the earliest illuminated manuscripts in the German language and illustrates the late effects of the Regensburg-Prüfening drawing style. This volume examines the experimental techniques recognizable in this work, which were integrated into pictures and text as well as the banners embedded in the miniatures, and it explores how they contribute to linking text and image.
When words and images form connections, the potential of their contents and their plausibility can be strengthened through the incorporation of verbal and pictorial traditions. The resulting combinations can be elaborated through the use of additional iconological elements. The means in which the respective situations and intentions give rise to innovations is examined here, particularly in illustrated broadsheets and emblematics, as it is here that the assertiveness of text-image connections can be easily observed.
The miniatures in the Stuttgart Psalter reflect the text in its totally direct sense, and thus give the Carolingian manuscript a special status, along with the Utrecht Psalter. Felix Heinzer undertakes a detailed examination of the functional connection behind this form of illustration. In the process, he also incorporates the Carolingian striving for valid texts together with contexts of apotropaic usage.
The study examines the genesis of the legend of the Sängerkrieg in the Wartburg Castle in the 13th century, its literary reception in German Romanticism and its treatment in the pictures of Moritz von Schwind. Special interest is focused on the implied views in each case of the relationship between art, education, religiosity, and society.
This work examines the aspects under which the topic 'eroticism and sexuality' has been treated in the Middle Ages and in early modern times, namely, in the areas of philosophy, theology, medicine and literature. The study works out each specific approach and strand of tradition, as well as the interactions between them.
The German bible codes in the library of the Franciscan monastery in Freiburg im Üechtland represent the end point of a series of compilation processes that span a time period from the year 1300 up to the middle of the fifteenth century. The monograph examines the bible translations of the "Freibuger pericopes" within the context of the text and image tradition of some of the first German bible prints (plenaria) in connection with the German-language literature of the city of Freiburg. The work thus presents an important contribution to the literary history of liturgy, as well as to the history of devoutness and cultural history.