Literature

Der Wilde Alexander

Melodien, Texte, Übersetzungen, Kommentar

17 x 24 cm, 180 p., cloth
69.00 €
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The poet known in tradition as Master Alexander or Wild Alexander was probably active from around 1250 as the author of minstrel songs, sacred songs, chants and a Minneleich. He is considered one of the most important song poets of …

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

17 x 24 cm, 272 p., cloth
98.00 €
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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 …

Das Janus-Prinzip

Fortschritt durch Rücksicht

14.8 x 21 cm, 376 p., hardback
29.00 €
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The Roman god Janus can still be a role model for us today. His double look forwards and backwards teaches us that retrospection is also necessary for sustainable progress. Retrospection has a double meaning in this context: it describes looking …

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
119.00 €
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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
110.00 €
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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 …

Karoline von Günderrode

Eine Annäherung an die Lebensgeschichte der Dichterin und an ihre Spuren in Winkel ab 1806

148 x 210 cm, 192 p., hardback
19.90 €
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Im Band 1 der Schriften aus dem Brentano-Haus präsentiert die Autorin bekannte und neue Quellen sowie ausgewählte Fachliteratur zur bewegten Lebensgeschichte der Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806). Die philosophische Dichterin der Frühromantik widersprach vehement Geschlechterrollenfixierungen, ersehnte stets freies selbstbestimmtes Leben und …

Der Tannhäuser

Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition

17 x 24 cm, 333 p., cloth
110.00 €
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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

17 x 24 cm, 256 p., cloth
79.00 €
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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 …

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren
17 x 24 cm, 364 p., cloth
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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
129.00 €
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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 …

Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler

Magazin der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft. Band 16, 2022

14.8 x 21 cm, 332 p., paperback / softback
24.90 €
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The Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler is an interdisciplinary journal that offers innovative approaches to the works of well-known German Romantic writers and introduces newly discovered sources and texts that provide material for further investigation of topics pertinent to contemporary discourse.

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
110.00 €
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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 …

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

17 x 24 cm, 256 p., hardback
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Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the country’s independence in 1956 until the revolutionary upheavals of 2010/2011. It appears as a society that …