Poetry

Intrigen – Die Macht der Möglichkeiten in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik

This study provides a precise definition of the term ‘intrigue’, which has not been a defined term in the medieval studies so far. The analysis is based on a selection of Middle...

Verhinderte Ritter in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Scheitern und Gelingen fiktionaler Identitätskonstruktionen

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Anhand einer als ‚verhinderte Ritter‘ bezeichneten Gruppe literarischer Figuren (Parzival, Rennewart, Gregorius,...

Märchen und Geschichten der Beduinen im Sinai

The fairy tales and stories in this book draw a colourful picture of Bedouin life and of a vanishing culture. At the same time there are parallels and stunning similarities to the...

Arabische Musikinstrumente in der Literatur des Mittelalters

With cultural exchange taking place in various settings during the Middle Ages, European musical instruments were highly influenced by Islamic cultures. Apart from the impact of...

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought...

Ludus compleatur

Theatralisierungsstrategien epischer Stoffe im spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Spiel

This study concentrates on strategies of the theatralization of epic motifs in the late medieval and early modern play in combination with the question of the advantages which lie...

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...

People from the Desert

Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture

“People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture” provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and...

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...

»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...

Das Hamburger Antiphonar ND VI 471

Ein wiederentdecktes Musikdenkmal des 15. Jahrhunderts aus dem Hamburger Dom. Einführung – Edition – Faksimile

The antiphonary ND VI 471 was created in the 15th Century and encompasses two layers with a total of 19 pages. It possibly served as a template (exemplum) as used in, among other...

Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte

Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer

This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer....

Iambos

Philologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer Gattung in der Antike

Here, Klaus Lennartz presents for the first time his overall view of the antique genre of the Iambos: examining the “Truth effect” of the Solonic Iambic tradition and the...

»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...

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main...

Eine Reise in die Berge und ans Wasser

Chinesische Malerei und Gedichte aus der Klassischen Zeit

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Die aus Shanghai stammende Künstlerin Lili Yuan lässt in traditioneller Tuschmalerei großartige, mystisch...

Poetik der Fremdheit

Palästinensische und irakische Lyrik des Exils

This first study on contemporary Arabic exile poetry focuses on four poets who contributed essentially to the innovation of the contemporary Arabic “Qa“īda”: Sa ͑dī Yūsuf (b....

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...

Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad

Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien

This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the...

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th...