series: Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Heinrichs von Neustadt ›Gottes Zukunft‹

Erzählen vom Heil in der Volkssprache

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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 …

Giovanni Boccaccios ,De casibus virorum illustrium’ in Deutschland

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

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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 …

Die Gebete Johanns von Neumarkt und die deutschsprachige Gebetbuchkultur des Spätmittelalters

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Johann von Neumarkt (ca. 1310-1380) created a corpus of German-language prayers that is reconstructed on the basis of the manuscript tradition. A stylistic study as well as detailed interpretations of the contents, taking into account the source material, outline the …

Thomas Murners 'Aeneis'-Übersetzung (1515)

Lateinisch-deutsche Edition und Untersuchungen

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The first ever German translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid' is that of the Franciscan, doctor of theology, jurist and poeta laureatus Thomas Murner (1475-1537). Its cultural and literary historical significance is documented on the one hand by its affiliation to the …

Exkurse im höfischen Roman

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If one takes the term digression literally, it is a deviation from the regular course of the narrative, and in fact the digression is centrally determined by its quality of difference: In the courtly novel, it suspends the order of …

Unterlaufenes Erzählen

Psychoanalytische Lektüren zum höfischen Roman

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The monograph examines four works from the Middle High German courtly literature (“Lanzelet” by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, “Parzival” by Wolfram von Eschenbach, “Tristan” by Gottfried von Strassburg, and “Wigalois” by Wirnt von Grafenberg). Phenomena like ambiguities, vagueness, ruptures in coherence …

Amicus und Amelius im europäischen Mittelalter

Erzählen von Freundschaft im Kontext der Roland-Tradition. Texte und Untersuchungen

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For the Middle Ages Amicus and Amelius were the epitome of friendship. Narratives of the two friends however not only touch upon medieval ideals of friendship but also on conceptions of loyality within the Christian faith as well as on …