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Die deutsche Griselda
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00This collective volume documents the German reception of the last novella of Boccaccio's Decameron. It is about Griselda, a poor daughter of a peasant, whom the Marquis Gualtieri marries and subsequently repudiates and humiliates in an inhumane way. Finally, after being subjected to numerous trials which she endures patiently, she is reinstated as... more...
Die Präsenz des Mittelalters in seinen Handschriften
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 133.00In the last few decades manuscripts have become a central object of research in all historical disciplines with an interest in the Middle Ages. Manuscripts are not only vehicles for texts and pictures, their concrete presence as objects from the past has also moved to the forefront of scholarly interest. The culture of the age of the manuscript is... more...
Humanismus in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 196.00The articles assembled here discuss humanism as a concept and phenomenon in the literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern age. With reference to authors, genres, and various reception phenomena, the authors set out to identify a humanistic matrix in 15th and 16th century German literature with a view to confirming or problematizing the concept... more...
Paradisus anime intelligentis
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 133.00Paradisus anime intelligentis is the Latin name of one of the most important late medieval collections of German sermons, about half of which comprises sermons by Meister Eckhart. The studies deal with the theological programme of the sermons, the manuscripts, their transmission and processing, together with selected individual texts. The volume is... more...
Innenräume in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The focus on inner space unites two topical areas of cultural anthropology: space as a structural paradigm, and the focal differentiation between the categories of ?inner? and ?outer?. The literature of medieval Germany, in staging such interior space in a variety of ways, poses questions about difference, liminality, and transgression, and thus allows... more...
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