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A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan [Paperback]
Will Hasty (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781571134462
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
At the beginning of the 13th century, Gottfried wrote the most `complete and profound rendering' of the passionate and adulterous love between Tristan and Isolde. These twelve specially commissioned articles endeavour to show the continuing imp... .... Learn More -
Women Writing Women's LIves: Representations of Gender in Religious Texts [Hardback]
Rebecca L. Garber (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780415939539
Published by : Routledge
As the subtitle puts it, this is a study about `representations of gender in religious texts by medieval German women writers 1100-1375'. The women in question are Hildegard of Bingen, Margaretha Ebner and Adelheid Langmann as well as numerous ... .... Learn More -
Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away [Paperback]
James A. Rushing (Editor)
Regular Price: £14.99
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ISBN: 9781580440370
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127. It seems certain that she was a layper... .... Learn More
History as Literature: German World Chronicles of the Thirteenth Century in Verse [Paperback]
Mike Graeme Florence (Editor)
Regular Price: £13.99
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ISBN: 9781580440424
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems’s Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in lang... .... Learn More
The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature [Hardback]
Sebastian Coxon (Author)
£117.50ISBN: 9780198160175
Published by : Oxford University Press
The question of the authorship of a text was often addressed within 13th-century literature. In this heavily annotated and detailed study, Coxon examines the nature of authorship and its presentation in German narrative literature written betwe... .... Learn More
Geistliches in weltlicher und Weltliches in geistlicher Literatur des Mittelalters [Hardback]
Christopher Huber (Author)
£71.99ISBN: 9783484640153
Published by : Max Niemeyer Verlag
This collection of fifteen essays examines the use of spiritual and worldly themes in the secular and religious literature of the Middle Ages, especially in Germany. Subjects include the treatment of the ancient world in medieval legends, secul... .... Learn More
Altnordisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Hardback]
Jan De Vries (Author)
£194.00ISBN: 9789004054363
Published by : Brill
A substantial dictionary that translates the early medieval languages of north western Europe, including Scandinavia, north Germany, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland, into modern German. The introduction includes a detailed comparison of s... .... Learn More
Odo von Magdeburg: Odo von Magdeburg [Hardback]
Thomas A-P Klein (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9783615002195
Published by : Georg Olms Verlag
The Latin hexameter poem Ernestus , which is divided into 8 books, is the only surviving version of the medieval legend of Duke Ernest of Swabia and we know the names of both the author and the addressee. It is probable that Odo, as the poet ca... .... Learn More
Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular 1050-1150 [Paperback]
James A. Schultz (Editor)
Regular Price: £14.99
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ISBN: 9781580440622
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
This volume offers some of the earliest texts in Middle High German, Das Ezzolied, Das Annolied, Die Kaiserchronik VV. 247-667, Das Lob Salomons, and the Historia Judith, with an introduction and notes..... Learn More
A Companion to Wolfram's Parzival [Hardback]
Will Hasty (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781571131522
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival expands and transforms the Arthurian tradition into a grand depiction of the medieval cosmos around 1200. Standing between clerical and chivalric cultures and articulating the interests and values of both, Wolf... .... Learn More
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