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Alpharts Tod. Dietrich und Wenezlan
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 98.00This is the third of the new Bremen editions of heroic epics related to Dietrich von Bern. The texts of ?Alpharts Tod? (late 13th century) and ?Dietrich und Wenezlan? (13th century) are given in a form that reflects the course of their transmission. Modern punctuation has been added. ?Alpharts Tod? centres on the killing of Dietrich's follower Alphart... more...
Babylon und Jerusalem
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 126.00The study analyzes strategies serving the constitution of meaning in »Reinfried and Apollonius«, proceeding from there to propose a new definition of what it is that significantly distinguishes romances on courtly love (Minne) and adventure from other verse romances. As specific expressions of aristocratic identity and existence, courtly love and knightly... more...
Beauty or Beast?
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 84.99A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures who leave their proper... more...
Behauptete Subjektivität
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 119.00The study is concerned with research into 20th century Jewish autobiography written in German. After an overview illuminating the tradition of autobiographical writing in the 19th and 20th centuries, the study develops the specific conditions of Jewish autobiography, which has been in existence since the end of the 18th century. The main section of... more...
The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95This is the first English translation of the 'Chronicle of Prussia', which was written by Nicolaus von Jeroschin, in middle German verse, during the period from 1330 to 1341. It is a history of the Teutonic Knights, encompassing the period between the foundation of the order, in 1190, and 1331. It is also an engaging and lively account of warfare... more...
Das poetische Werk
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 350.00This new complete translation of the over 130 songs and poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1377?1445) stays close to the original text and is philologically oriented. It replaces the previous publication in 1989 by the same editor which has been out of print for many years. All of the many bibliographical references have been updated for the new... more...
Der 'Wigalois' Wirnts von Grafenberg
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 322.00This is the first introduction in German to the Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg, written around 1200. The introduction is written for the general reader, with a target readership both of students of medieval German literature and of a wider audience of those seeking an initial approach to the text. Each section of the romance is summarized exactly,... more...
Der Marner
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 280.00The edition combines the texts by Der Marner, in his time a highly regarded representative of early Sangspruch poetry, translated and exhaustively commentated, with all documents referring to him and all the texts by 14th to 16th century poets - mostly anonymous - who composed new songs using his melodies and his verses with their own additions. Using... more...
Der Ring
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 420.00Considered a ?Haupt- und Schlüsselwerk des Spätmittelalters? (one of the most important texts of the Late Middle Ages), Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring (ca. 1410) is a comic, didactic, verse narrative of courtship, violence and war and even world war that reflects the crisis of meaning and breeches during the transition from the medieval to the modern era.... more...









