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Der >Jüngere Titurel< zwischen Didaxe und Verwilderung
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 37.64Hauptbeschreibung Der >Jüngere Titurel Der >Jüngere Titurel< hat - trotz einiger wichtiger Monografien der letzten Jahre - das negative Verdikt, unter das er im 19. Jahrhundert geraten ist, nie wirklich abschütteln können. Seine Artifizialität und Komplexität (oder doch nur Kompliziertheit?) haben einer breiteren Beschäftigung mit dem umfangreichen... more...
Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 104.95These six essays seek to uncover the dynamic patterns in verbal and pictorial images and to evaluate their potentialities and limitations. Thematically ordered, the essays begin with material images and move on to increasing degrees of immateriality. The subjects treated are: verbal descriptions of an icon and of a statue; imaginative visions and auditions... more...
Kulturgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Wahrsagerei
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00The quest for truth, foreseeing the future, solving the enigmas of the past, finding answers to acute questions: all this was promised by oracles already in antiquity. Although the rise of Christianity meant a break with this tradition, the art of fortune telling continued to thrive, partly based on models from antiquity but in Christianized form,... more...
Schreiben, Bildung und Gespräch
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00In the primarily oral culture of the medieval court, authors of sophisticated literary texts still took into account forms of reception beyond the words themselves, including, for example, the role of performers, who they sometimes mentioned in paratexts. They also attempted at times to inscribe reception modes in the texts themselves. These modes... more...
Text und Normativität im deutschen Mittelalter
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00This book investigates how German-language texts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era helped to form collective and individual identities through their handling of social norms. Using case studies, the contributors analyze the shaping of norms for different text types, social groups, and genders. They also define the scope allowed by the literature... more...
Predigt im Kontext
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 231.00The examination of the context of medieval sermons essayed in this volume focuses on a variety of aspects: the dominant intra- and extra-literary influences, the use of literary forms and types, the adaptation of theological subject matter for proclamation from the pulpit, the influence of liturgy and audience (congregations), the interaction between... more...
Um Leib und Leben
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The study describes concepts of body and of law in the Nibelungenlied and analyzes gender relationships in the epic from the perspective of both areas of knowledge. The linking of the literary text with medical and natural-philosophical as well as legal normative documents of the 12th and early 13th century shows how the Nibelungenlied takes up and... more...
Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Accessible and useful to students and scholars of medieval and Spanish studies, this is the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Gonzalo de Berceo likely used as the source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Señora. This book includes the original Latin text, translations... more...
Dreaming of Cockaigne
Columbia University Press 2001; US$ 31.99Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is Cockaigne.... more...
Malory's Library
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself. more...









