Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der interdisziplinäre Forschungsbeiträge aus historisch arbeitenden Kulturwissenschaften vereint. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage nach den Konstruktionsprinzipien und Bausteinen der Mittelalterbilder, die sich als Artefakte erweisen und Einsicht in …

Der Tannhäuser

Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition

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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

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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

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

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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 …

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 …

Mittelalter-Rezeption im zeitgenössischen Musiktheater

Katalog und Fallstudien

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Medieval subjects have played a significant role in the history of opera and musical theater. Since 1945 over 350 works have been set in the Middle Ages or demonstrate a reception of medieval topics or events. These are catalogued with …

Das ‚Briefbuch‘ der Strassburger Johanniterkommende Zum Grünen Wörth

Untersuchungen und Edition

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The 'Letter Book' served as the basis for the formation of a community identity in the monastery Zum Grünen Wörth. What is unusual about this manuscript are the two conversion texts declared as autographs, the 'Four Years' of the founder …

Mediävistische Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert

Festschrift für Ingrid Bennewitz zum 65. Geburtstag

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The Festschrift includes many papers of national and international students, colleagues and friends of Ingrid Bennewitz about her many research and work interests: middlehighgerman lyrc poetry, gender studies, medievalism and history and perspectives of medieval studies.

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

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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 and the philosophy of Late Antiquity, in medieval Latin thought and in medieval …

Jenseits der Dichotomie von Text und Bild

Verfahren der Veranschaulichung und Verlebendigung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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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 of painting and poetry. For Christian-influenced pre-modern art production, it was …

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

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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 and extensive iconography. This volume brings together a …

Maßgebendsein

Texte und Studien zur Poetologie des frühen Meistergesangs

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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, poetological contemplations are exclusively expressed by the singable scripts themselves. The present study edits …

Wizlav. Sangsprüche und Minnelieder

Melodien, Texte, Übersetzungen, Kommentar

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Wizlav (the boy), who was probably identical with Prince Wizlav III of Rügen († 1325), was not only a creator of original texts, but also a gifted melodist. Among the authors of Middle High German songs, he occupies a special …

Figures

Lettres, chiffres, notes et symboles au Moyen Âge

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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), Michel Pastoureau (History and History of Art, EPHE Paris) and Susan Rankin (Musicology, Cambridge), at the …

Petrus de Alvernia. Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum Aristotelis

Edizione, introduzione e note

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This is the first critical edition of the most significant medieval commentary on Books III-VIII of Aristotle’s Politics. This commentary was intended as a continuation of Thomas Aquinas’s literal commentary on Books I-III of the Politics. It was highly influential …

Bücher und Identitäten

Literarische Reproduktionskulturen der Vormoderne. Überstorfer Colloquium 2016

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Das Format der Literatur, ihre materielle und mediale Erscheinung im handgeschriebenen Codex oder im gedruckten Buch, sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend in den Fokus der mediävistischen Forschung gerückt. Der material turn in den Literaturwissenschaften bedeutete die Überwindung der Dichotomie …

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 …

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

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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 Middle Ages; it shows, among other things, the coexistence of both …

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

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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 basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of …