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Book Synopsis The Kaiserchronik by : Alastair Matthews
Download or read book The Kaiserchronik written by Alastair Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narratological analysis of the Kaiserchronik, or chronicle of the emperors, which provides an account of the Roman and Holy Roman emperors, from the foundation of Rome to the eve of the Second Crusade.
Book Synopsis The Medieval Chronicle V by : Erik Kooper
Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle V written by Erik Kooper and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions.The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.
Book Synopsis Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature written by Albrecht Classen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, criticizing or even ridiculing him as a pompous and ineffectual ruler. The motif is traced from its earliest origins in chronicles, in the Kaiserchronik, through the Rolandslied and Der Stricker's Karl der Große, to his recasting as a saint in the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl.
Download or read book Astralabe written by Brenda M. Cook and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal castration. The couple spent the rest of their lives as monastics, in each other’s orbits if not in shared presence, as they became movers in the glittering monastic world of the early twelfth-century France. What happened to their strangely named Astralabe? Astralabe: The Life and Times of the Son of Heloise and Abelard rescues the “lost son” from footnotes and fiction and attempts to tell instead the story of a real man living in Europe in the twelfth century. This book assembles the references to Astralabe, provides background in the history of France and Switzerland, uncovers Abelard’s relationships with his family, with the ruling house of Brittany and more, and most importantly draws together all that is known of Astralabe.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of German Literature by : Matthias Konzett
Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages by : Michele Campopiano
Download or read book Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages written by Michele Campopiano and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle.
Book Synopsis The Central Franconian Rhyming Bible ("Mittelfränkische Reimbibel") by : David A. Wells
Download or read book The Central Franconian Rhyming Bible ("Mittelfränkische Reimbibel") written by David A. Wells and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Central Franconian Rhyming Bible (“Mittelfränkische Reimbibel”), although surviving in only a fragmentary condition, is one of the most thematically wide-ranging works of the neglected corpus of Early Middle High German religious poems of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In its original form the work may have incorporated Christian world-history from the Creation to the Last Judgement. The surviving fragments point to a substantial engagement by a poet from a northwestern dialectal region on the border of High German, Low German, and Middle Dutch with material from the early Old Testament, the Gospels, and the apocryphal and hagiographical legends relating to early Church history. The commentary is the first comprehensive treatment of the theological and literary subject-matter of the work since that of Hugo Busch in 1879/80, and complements the recent linguistic studies of Thomas Klein. The study of sources and analogues conclusively demonstrates that the text – probably of early-twelfth-century date – is a series of homilies, often closely related to German pre-mendicant sermons, and an important witness to the possible existence of a vernacular sermon tradition at an earlier date than existing manuscript evidence suggests. It also includes features of central importance for knowledge of the text tradition of seminal Christian apocrypha. The substantial introduction and conclusion include a comparison with the Old English homiletic corpus of Ælfric of Eynsham. The commentary is also accompanied by the Middle High German text from Friedrich Maurer’s standard edition, and a straightforward prose translation into English intended to make the neglected work accessible to medievalists of different disciplines.
Book Synopsis Wolfram's "Willehalm" by : Martin H. Jones
Download or read book Wolfram's "Willehalm" written by Martin H. Jones and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm (c. 1210-20) is one of the great epic creations of the Middle Ages. Its account of conflict between Christian and Muslim cultures, centering on the warrior-saint Willehalm and his wife Gyburc, a convert from Islam, challenges the ideology of the Crusades. It celebrates the heroism, faith, and family solidarity of the Christians, but also displays the suffering of both sides in the war and questions the justification of all killing. Gyburc, whose abandonment of her Muslim family and conversion to Christianity are the immediate cause of the war, bears a double burden of sorrow, and it is from her that springs a vision of humanity transcending religious differences that is truly remarkable for its time. In Gyburc's heathen brother Rennewart and his love for the French king's daughter, Wolfram also develops a richly comic strand in the narrative, with the outcome left tantalizingly open by the work's probably unfinished conclusion. Long overshadowed by his earlier Parzival, Wolfram's Willehalm is increasingly receiving the recognition it deserves. The fifteen essays in this volume present new interpretations of a wide range of aspects of Willehalm. They place the work in its historical and literary context, promote understanding of its leading figures and themes, and highlight Wolfram's supreme qualities as a story-teller. Martin H. Jones is Senior Lecturer in German at King's College, London. Timothy McFarland is retired as Senior Lecturer in German at University College London.
Book Synopsis Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages by : Mark Chinca
Download or read book Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages written by Mark Chinca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with the established literary cultures of Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic, the volume's contributors describe the processes of emergence, consolidation, and institutionalization that make it possible to speak of a literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomena through the lens of later, national developments; the result is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language, literature, and territory in the space we call 'Europe'.
Book Synopsis Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. Band 70 - 2013 by : Guus Kroonen
Download or read book Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. Band 70 - 2013 written by Guus Kroonen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhalt Paul Peterson: An Old Problem in Etymology Revisited: The Origin of Germanic Nouns with the Suffix ¿ster Roland Schuhmann: Eine Miszelle zum Giessener gotisch-lateinischen Bibelfragment Luca Panieri: Überlegungen zur nordischen Entwicklung von germ. */ē1/ in Endsilbe Martin Hannes Graf und Michelle Waldispühl: Neues zu den Runeninschriften von Eichstetten, Schwangau, Steindorf und Neudingen-Baar II Diether Schürr: Sunufatarunga und die Erfindung des Hiltibrantliedes Marco Mostert: Communicating the Faith: the Circle of Boniface, Germanic Vernaculars, and Frisian and Saxon Converts Bernard Mees: Weaving Words. Law and Performance in Early Nordic Tradition Riemer Reinsma: French (or would-be French) Toponyms in the Netherlands Special Issue Section: Sovereigns and Saints. Narrative Modes of Constructing Rulership and Sainthood in Latin and German (Rhyme) Chronicles of the High and The Late Middle Ages Uta Goerlitz: Introduction: Cultural Integrative Figures at the Intersection of Rulership and Sainthood in Medieval Chronicles Andreas Hammer: Interferences between Hagiography and Historiography: Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg and Emperor Henry II Uta Goerlitz: Karl was ain wârer gotes wîgant. Problems of Interpreting the Figure of Charlemagne in the Early Middle High German Kaiserchronik Annette Güntzel: Godfrey of Bouillon: the Stylization of an Ideal Ruler in Universal Chronicles of the 12th and 13th Centuries Stephanie Seidl: Beyond all Logic? Narrative Relations between Secular Rule and Divine Grace in the Constantine Episode of Jans¿s Weltchronik Besprechungen
Book Synopsis Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050-1150 by : James A Schultz
Download or read book Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050-1150 written by James A Schultz and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning, yet written in vernacular verse - that is not found elsewhere in the European Middle Ages. In addition, they may be of use in teaching since, although relatively short, they illustrate a great number of characteristic medieval ways of writing and can be linked to a number of quite remarkable historical figures.
Book Synopsis Chronicles of the Investiture Contest by :
Download or read book Chronicles of the Investiture Contest written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggle between the German emperors and the papacy known today as the Investiture Contest. Together with numerous continuations written in the first quarter of the twelfth century, Frutolf’s Chronicle offers an engaging and accessible snapshot of how medieval people reacted to a conflict that led to civil war in Germany and Italy, and fundamentally altered the relationship of church and state in Western society.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages by : Noel Harold Kaylor
Download or read book A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages written by Noel Harold Kaylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars.
Book Synopsis German Literature of the Early Middle Ages by : Brian Murdoch
Download or read book German Literature of the Early Middle Ages written by Brian Murdoch and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100. This second volume of the set not only presents a detailed picture of the beginnings of writing in German from its first emergence as a literary language from around 750 to 1100, but also places those earliest writings into a context. The first stages of German literature existed within a manuscript culture, so careful consideration is given to what constitutes the actual texts, but German literature also arose within a society that had recently been Christianized -- through the medium of Latin. Therefore what we understand by literature in Germany at this early period must include a great amount of writing in Latin. Thus the volume looks in detail at Latin works in prose and verse, but with an eye upon the interaction between Latin and German writings. Some of the material in the newly written German language is not literary in the modern sense of the word, but makes clear the difficulties and indeed the triumphs of the establishing of a written literary language. Individual chapters look first at the earliest translations and functional literature in German (including charms and prayers); next, the examination of heroic material juxtaposes the Hildebrandlied with the Christian Ludwigslied and with Latin writings like Waltharius and the panegyrics; Otfrid's work -- the Gospel-poem in German -- is given its due prominence; the smaller German texts and the later prose works are fully treated; as is chronicle-writing in German and Latin. Old High German literature was a trickle compared to the flood of the Latin that surrounded (and influenced) it, but its importance is undeniable: that trickle became a river. Contributors: Linda Archibald, Graeme Dunphy, Stephen Penn, Christopher Wells, Jonathan West, Brian Murdoch. Brian Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Book Synopsis Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature by : Vickie L. Ziegler
Download or read book Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature written by Vickie L. Ziegler and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."
Book Synopsis Chivalry in Twelfth-century Germany by : W. H. Jackson
Download or read book Chivalry in Twelfth-century Germany written by W. H. Jackson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in English to cover the whole production of Hartmann von Aue (fl.1180-1203), a figure of paramount importance in the history of medieval German literature... His book is refreshing...and full of stimulating ideas. MEDIUM AEVUMFirst full-scale exploration of knighthood and chivalric values in poems of key figure in 12c German literature, Hartmann von Aue. `Concerned principally to situate Hartmann's works in their social and cultural historical context, Jackson's carefully constructed and lucidly written book will be required and compelling reaading at every level of interest, fromundergraduate student to specialist scholar. It expounds knighthood as the major theme of Hartmann's varied oeuvre, reflected and refracted through the prism of different genres, fictional material and narrative positions. Jackson's unrivalled grasp of the historical evidence for the material, social and ideological dimensions of chivalry in the twelfth century is brought to bear on the texts in a way which never reduces these to mere functions of an extra-literary reality, but brings out the subtle and dynamic interplay of their aesthetic patterns and documentary correlatives... The book also builds up a persuasive framework for understanding Hartmann's literary production as a whole and for grasping it as an evolving reflection of and on knighthood as the key mode and model of social self-realisation for his chivalric audience.' FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Hartmann von Aue is a major figure in medieval German literature, and his works document key features of the history of chivalry in an important phase of transition and consolidation. This book is the first full-scale enquiry undertaken of the presentation of the role ofknighthood across the full range of Hartmann's works, considering the social, ideological and literary dimensions of chivalry and fruitfully combining literary, linguistic and historical approaches. The opening chapters place Hartmann's works in the broader perspective of Arthurian literature and of kingship and chivalry in western Europe, and in the context of the changing historical reality of knighthood as a military and a social order in twelfth-century Germany. Further chapters are devoted to each of his works, Erec, Gregorius, the Klage and his lyrics, Der arme Heinrich and Dwein, which are interpreted both with a historical
Book Synopsis Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages by : Rachel E. Kellett
Download or read book Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages written by Rachel E. Kellett and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat is one of the central themes of Middle High German narrative literature, and of significant interest to medievalists in general. Nevertheless, few studies to date have attempted a detailed analysis of the depiction of combat in literary texts. Rachel Kellett uses an inclusive approach to the details of combat descriptions in order to analyse minutely the scenes of single combat and battle presented in two major narrative works by Der Stricker, the epic Karl der Grosse and the Arthurian romance Daniel von dem Bluuml;henden Tal, written between 1220 and 1250. The author compares these works with a wide range of other texts, both French and German, and investigates the relationship between Stricker's depiction of combat and that found in the works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach among others. She also draws on historical research into medieval warfare, tournament and the tradition of the judicial combat, which adds valuable depth to her analysis of literary texts. Overall, this study provides new insights into the depiction of combat in Middle High German literature as a whole, while at the same time highlighting hitherto unnoticed aspects of the writings of Der Stricker as an individual author, and bringing a new perspective on the ambiguous role played by combat in the equally ambiguous Daniel von dem Bluuml;henden Tal.
