German Language and Literature

Deutsche Liebeslyrik vom Minnesang bis zu Oswald von Wolkenstein

oder die Erfindung der Liebe im Mittelalter

This initial volume of the series provides a basic introduction into the particularities of the history of mentality, language and literature in a study of the Middle Ages...

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in...

Das »Bairisch-österreichische Buch von Troja«

(»Buch von Troja II«). Kritische Ausgabe

With this volume, Heribert A. Hilgers and Heinz Thoelen present a critical edition of one of the most noteworthy and outstanding late medieval German prose epics about Troy, which...

Orte – Ordnungen – Oszillationen

Raumerschaffung durch Wissen und räumliche Struktur von Wissen

The volume goes back to a transdicsiplinary conference held in December 2010 at the University of Trier. It contains articles dedicated to tree key concepts that are central to...

Das »Nibelungenlied« und »Das Buch des Dede Korkut« – Sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte

Beiträge zum ersten interkulturellen Symposion in Baku, Aserbaidschan, 2009

This volume of conference proceedings brings the “Kitab Dede Korkut” into the spotlight of intercultural comparative studies of medieval heroic epic poetry. The oldest and only...

Studien zu ausgewählten Fastnachtspielen des Hans Folz

Struktur – Autorschaft – Quellen

At the threshold of modernism, the artisan poet Hans Folz plays a significant role as author and printer in the cultural center of Nuremberg. Part of his multifaceted oeuvre...

Rechtsidee und Bild

Zur Funktion und Ikonografie der Bilder in Rechtsbüchern vom 9. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert

This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of illustrations in German legal manuscripts dating from the earliest such works (9th century) to printed books of the 16th...

Die Merseburger Zaubersprüche

The study represents the first extensive monograph on these significant Old High German texts. The controversial linguistic material is examined etymologically while questions...

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 18 (2010/2011): Konrad von Megenberg (1309 bis 1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher »Enzyklopädist« im europäischen Kontext

This proceedings places Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) squarely at the focal point of European cataloging. It combines contributions from Megenberg followers from different...

»Ieglicher sang sein eigen ticht«

Germanistische und musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum deutschen Lied im Spätmittelalter

The collection of essays, “Ieglicher sang sein eigen ticht”, is the result of a symposium at the monastery Neustift near Brixen, where germanists and musicologists talked about...

Johannes Hartlieb »Kräuterbuch«

Before the middle of the fifteenth century the Munich physician and author wrote an herbal that describes the medical efficacy of more than 170 drugs drawn from plants and...

»Christus und die minnende Seele«

An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography

The late medieval verse dialogue ‘Christus und die minnende Seele’ portrays the journey of the soul as the bride of Christ toward mystical union in a series of 20 to 24 individual...

Wege zur Verbindlichkeit

Studien zum deutschen Roman um 1300

Ulrich of Etzenbach's "Wilhelm von Wenden", Heinrich von Neustadt's "Apollonius von Tyrland", Johann von Würzburg's "Wilhelm von Österreich", and the anonymous "Reinfried von...

Herzog Friedrich von der Normandie

Der altschwedische Ritterroman »Hertig Fredrik av Normandie«. Text, Übersetzung, Untersuchungen

Around 1300 the norwegian royal house ordered an unknown writer to translate a nowadays lost german source into the old swedish knight’s tale „Hertig Fredrik av Normandie“....

Heldendichtung im Spätmittelalter

Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien zu den skriptographischen, typographischen und ikonographischen Erscheinungsformen des »Rosengarten zu Worms«

Ghislaine Grimm took up her studies at the University of Würzburg in 1993, where she graduated, too. During the years of her graduate and post-graduate studies she was an...

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E

The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3...

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 17 (2008/2009): Kaiser Maximilian I. (1459 bis 1519) und die Hofkultur seiner Zeit. Interdisziplinäres Symposion Brixen, 26. bis 30. September 2007

Volume 17 of the “Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft” presents some 40 papers on “Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and the court culture of his time”. Maximilian is...

Mittelalter-Rezeption im zeitgenössischen Musiktheater

Katalog und Fallstudien

Medieval subjects have played a significant role in the history of opera and musical theater. Since 1945 over 350 works have been set in the Middle Ages or demonstrate a reception...

Gattungsinterferenzen in der späten Heldendichtung

Dietrich von Bern is one of the major heroes in German medieval literature. His fights with giants, dwarves, and dragons were very popular through the 16th century. Poems like the...

Hof – Universität – Laien

Literatur- und sprachgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum deutschen Schrifttum der Wiener Schule des Spätmittelalters

This study shows the late-medieval Vienna School as a whole for the first time. Whereas scholars until recently have focussed upon German theological writings of the Viennese...