Middle Ages

Héritages platoniciens et aristotéliciens dans l’Orient et l’Occident (IIe-XVIe siècles)

The aim of bringing together these works in this volume is to explore, through specific studies, the reception of certain aspects of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Patristics...

Mediävistische Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert

Festschrift für Ingrid Bennewitz zum 65. Geburtstag

The Festschrift includes many papers of national and international students, colleagues and friends of Ingrid Bennewitz about her many research and work interests:...

Jenseits der Dichotomie von Text und Bild

Verfahren der Veranschaulichung und Verlebendigung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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...

Schicksal – Zufall – Willensfreiheit

Kontingenz im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg

The tale of the fall of Troy is - and was already in the Middle Ages - a popular and oft-told story, and the tragic end of the war between Greeks and Trojans can be considered...

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

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...

Die Inschriften Mayen-Koblenz 1

Ehem. Landkreis Koblenz mit Andernach

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...

La mort du roi : réalité, littérature, représentation | Der Tod des Königs: Realität, Literatur, Repräsentation

The death of the king was always one of the most significant events in the history of a rule. He gave the impetus to various symbolic representations, to produce a rich literature...

guldîne linge

Fünf Essays zu Gottfrieds Tristan

In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Straßburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of ancient, Celtic, French, Medieval Latin and German traditions. Furthermore, he...

Didaxe und Natur

Darstellung und Funktionalisierung der Natur in Thomasins von Zerklaere ,Welschem Gast‘, in Freidanks ,Bescheidenheit‘ und in Hugos von Trimberg ,Renner‘

Using vernacular examples from ‘didactic literature’, it is questioned which role the verbalisation of nature plays in a didactic context and which knowledge systems come together...

Maßgebendsein

Texte und Studien zur Poetologie des frühen Meistergesangs

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,...

De l’homme à l’univers

Conceptions anthropologiques et image du monde selon Pierre d’Ailly

The work of Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420) is a reflection of the intellectual questions of the late Middle Ages. His texts reveal a pronounced interest in the comprehensive order...

Négociations et relations interculturelles entre la chrétienté latine et la chrétienté grecque aux conciles de Bâle et de Ferrare-Florence (1431–1439)

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Wie der Titel es bereits ankündigt, behandelt die Publikation die Beziehungen zwischen der lateinischen und der...

Die Inschriften der Stadt Magdeburg

The volume contains 438 catalogue items with almost 800 inscriptions that could be recorded from the original and copy tradition. The collection reflects the history of Magdeburg...

Figures

Lettres, chiffres, notes et symboles au Moyen Âge

Dedicated to the question of the sign, this volume brings together the three plenary lectures given by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton),...

Die einstimmigen Lieder Oswalds von Wolkenstein

Edition der Melodien und Kommentar

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Eine wissenschaftlich reflektierte Gesamtausgabe der rund 100 einstimmigen Melodien Oswalds von Wolkenstein galt...

Wege in die Geschichte durch Erzählen von Vergangenheit in der Frühen Neuzeit

The examination of historical images in selected works from the 16th century offers a fundamental insight into how the Early Modern Period related to the past, especially the High...

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the...

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable...

Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit

Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new...

Die Inschriften des Hochtaunus- und des Main-Taunus-Kreises

The volume contains about 400 catalogue numbers with the medieval and early modern inscriptions from the 7th century to the year 1700. The catalogue begins with the only preserved...