The volume presents the proceedings of the 2023 international conference held in Fribourg (Switzerland), examining the emergence of a European tradition of political lyric between the twelfth-century renaissance and the fall of Constantinople. The essays – written in the four …
Norman Sicily (1060/61-1189) was a crossroads of Latin-Western, Byzantine-Eastern and Islamic-Oriental cultures. The examination of primarily Arab-Islamic sources brought to light insights into Muslim life and its organisation during Christian-Norman rule in Sicily. In the process, it became clear that …
In dem an geistigen Bewegungen reichen zwölften Jahrhundert erscheint neben der in Frankreich entwickelten neuen Klassik und neben der von Paris ausstrahlenden Scholastik auch eine symbolistische Literaturgruppe, die besonders im Sacrum Imperium Verbreitung findet. Ihr führender Kopf ist der aus …
Der Spruchsang ist eine der Hauptgattungen des. mittelalterlichen deutschen Liedes. Er ist zentraler Forschungsgegenstand der germanistischen Mediävistik. Die Editionslage ist gleichwohl nicht, befriedigend. Dem sucht die hier vorgelegte Ausgabe abzuhelfen. Sie enthält alle Spruchstrophen, die seit von der Hagen (1838) …
Die Bibel spielte eine grundlegende Rolle bei der Entwicklung der volkssprachlichen Literaturen. Einer ihrer wichtigsten Beiträge ist das biblische Exemplum, d. h. die Gesamtheit der von der Bibel und den Apokryphen inspirierten Anekdoten, die den religiösen Diskurs und später die …
For Western churches, the pews are a constitutive component. Nevertheless, it has so far received little attention in its entirety and its importance. Here, for the first time, an overview of the development of church stalls from Christian antiquity to …
What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his …
Reinmar von Zweter is the most important Sangspruch poet between Walther von der Vogelweide and Frauenlob. Within German poetry of the time, the transmission of his works is unique in two ways. A systematic collection of his Sangsprüche must have …
The book deals with the practices and authorisations of legislation in the Middle Ages. Laws laid down norms, but they were also subject to norms. These were not only based on traditions, but also referred to goals that were to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Diese Schrift enthält einen fiktiven Dialog zwischen zwei Personen unterschiedlichen Alters. Sie wollen über ausgewählte Textstellen aus dem Werk von Immanuel Kant diskutieren. Ich, die ältere Person, stelle mir bei meinen Überlegungen verschiedene Personen vor und fordere diese auf, mit …
From antiquity to the present, the theological and art-historical development of the places where the sacraments of baptism, confession and the Lord's Supper are administered and the sermon is presented on 300 pages and with over three hundred images. The …
