European history: medieval period, middle ages

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

17 x 24 cm, 272 p., cloth
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The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific …

In Verbindung mit Ingrid Bennewitz und Freimut Löser Hg. von Jens Haustein und Dorothea Klein

Spielformen des Lyrischen im späten Mittelalter
17 x 24 cm, 460 p., cloth
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The contributions in this anthology shed light on the thematic and poetic diversity of lyrical speech in the German late Middle Ages. The focus is on the productive engagement with genre and discourse traditions, the play with language, religious semantics …

Heinrichs von Neustadt ›Gottes Zukunft‹

Erzählen vom Heil in der Volkssprache

15.5 x 23 cm, 288 p., with dust jacket
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This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Heinrich von Neustadtʼs religious poem ›Gottes Zukunft‹ (›Godʼs Arrival‹). It examines the transformation of religious knowledge in the vernacular and points out how Heinrich von Neustadt deals with crucial theologumena beyond the …

Der Tannhäuser

Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition

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Tannhäuser has established a very unique profile as an author of 13th century medieval German literature. Not only did he experiment with literary genres and test their limits; his poetry is also defined by complex self-referential patterns. This study on …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

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The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Geistliche Lesespiele

Exemplarische Lektüren mittelalterlicher Passions- und Weihnachtsspiele im Kontext ihrer Überlieferung

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Many medieval religious plays survive in manuscripts without reference to theatrical performance; rather, they are presented as literary texts in their own right. A series of case studies focusing on Passion and Christmas plays in their specific manuscript traditions illuminates …

Ges. und bearb. von Jürgen Herold und Mona Dorn

Die Inschriften der Stadt Wismar
19 x 27 cm, 1040 p., 87 Tafeln, 1 Falttafel, with dust jacket
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Die Inschriftenüberlieferung beginnt in der Hansestadt Wismar in der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts und umfasst bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts annähernd 800 Objekte. Mehr als zwei Drittel der Inschriftenträger sind Grabplatten. Unter ihnen nimmt die Messingplatte für Herzogin …

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren
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The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Das Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier

(Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, H 396) Studie und kommentierte Edition

17 x 24 cm, 550 p., cloth
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This small-size manuscript, probably produced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century in eastern central Germany, is here studied in depth for the first time. The manuscript is without any known parallels as regards its structure: illustrated with coloured …

Giovanni Boccaccios ,De casibus virorum illustrium’ in Deutschland

Studien zur Überlieferung und Rezeption eines frühhumanistischen Werkes im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert

15.5 x 23 cm, 400 p., with dust jacket
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Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De casibus virorum illustrium' - an early humanist collection of biographies of famous men and women of world history in Latin - was one of the most widely read works of the great Italian author throughout Europe in …

Mediävistische Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert

Festschrift für Ingrid Bennewitz zum 65. Geburtstag

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The Festschrift includes many papers of national and international students, colleagues and friends of Ingrid Bennewitz about her many research and work interests: middlehighgerman lyrc poetry, gender studies, medievalism and history and perspectives of medieval studies.

Jenseits der Dichotomie von Text und Bild

Verfahren der Veranschaulichung und Verlebendigung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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This volume brings together the research findings of a DFG network of Germanists and art historians. The focus is on processes of visualisation and vivification in the sister arts of painting and poetry. For Christian-influenced pre-modern art production, it was …

Inschriften zwischen Realität und Fiktion. Vom Umgang mit vergangenen Formen und Ideen

Beiträge zur 12. Internationalen Fachtagung für Epigraphik 5.-8. Mai 2010 in Mainz

17 x 24 cm, 336 p., 92 Tafeln, hardback
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The distinction between the true and the false has always been one of the special challenges of historical research. Particularly in the case of inscriptions, it is not uncommon for the original findings to be distorted by later restoration, historicising …

Die Inschriften Mayen-Koblenz 1

Ehem. Landkreis Koblenz mit Andernach

19 x 27 cm, 863 p., 220 Tafeln, 1 Karte, with dust jacket
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In 532 chronologically ordered catalogue numbers, this volume records the annotated inscriptions of the south-eastern part of the present-day district of Mayen-Koblenz (former district of Koblenz and the town of Andernach with its incorporated suburbs of Eich, Kell, Miesenheim and …

Maßgebendsein

Texte und Studien zur Poetologie des frühen Meistergesangs

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Only by the beginning of the 16th century, the „Meistergesang“ develops explicit poetics of rules. In the early anonymous “Meistergesang” of the 14th and 15th century, poetological contemplations are exclusively expressed by the singable scripts themselves. The present study edits …