European history: medieval period, middle ages

Die „Habichtslehren“ des deutschen Spätmittelalters

Eine Quellenstudie zu Sprache, Herkunft und Kulturgeschichte

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Not before their successor, the “Beizbüchlein”, was published as the very first printed book on hunting in Europe, the so-called “Habichtslehren” (“goshawk-lore”) got to some publicity and made quite remarkable impact on the development of a widespread and highly relevant …

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 …

Monde animal et végétal dans le récit bref du Moyen Âge

Colloque international 2016

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A set of studies that offers a global vision of the literary representations of the animal and plant world in the brief narratives of the Middle Ages (fable, example, proverb, lais, etc.). The volume focuses in particular on Spanish literature, …

Medieval theories of the creative act, Théories médiévales de l’acte créatif, Theorien des kreativen Akts im Mittelalter

Fribourg Colloquium 2015, Colloque Fribourgeois 2015, Freiburger Colloquium 2015

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Essays in this volume explore medieval perceptions of the role of human creativity and the nature of creation. Drawing on examples from literature, art, music, and philosophy, and across the Western European tradition, the contributors consider how medieval craftsmen, writers, …

Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache

Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle

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The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced significant German-language manuscripts, which this work hopes to analyze with an orientation …

Der Kurzroman in den spätmittelalterlichen Sammelhandschriften Europas

Pan-European Romances in Medieval Compilation Manuscripts

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Kurzromane wie Floire et Blancheflor, die Melusine und die Geschichte vom gegessenen Herzen erfreuten sich im späten Mittelalter großer Beliebtheit und waren in weiten Teilen Westeuropas über Sprach- und Landesgrenzen hinweg verbreitet. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Sammelbandes steht die Frage, wie …

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 …

Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia

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Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. Constant political changes, including relations to and occupations …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 18 (2010/2011): Konrad von Megenberg (1309 bis 1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher »Enzyklopädist« im europäischen Kontext

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This proceedings places Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) squarely at the focal point of European cataloging. It combines contributions from Megenberg followers from different disciplines and creates a wide spectrum of thought on the modern effectiveness of this first German "non-fiction …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 17 (2008/2009): Kaiser Maximilian I. (1459 bis 1519) und die Hofkultur seiner Zeit. Interdisziplinäres Symposion Brixen, 26. bis 30. September 2007

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Volume 17 of the “Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft” presents some 40 papers on “Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and the court culture of his time”. Maximilian is considered the first ruler to employ ‘modern’ media – primarily printing – in …

Chorographies

Les mises en discours de la ville

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The city is considered one of the most significant symbols of human cultural development, in the course of which speaking and writing in the city and about the city play a very special role. The interdisciplinary volume Chorographies. Les mises …

Identität und Maske

Die Aneignung des Anderen in Bearbeitungen des Tristanstoffes im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert

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This volume concentrates on episodes in Middle High German literature in which identity becomes ambiguous through the using of disguises. In this way, these episodes are not underestimated as droll story elements but are actively used to explain how identity …

Le livre du Chevalier errant

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From 1394 to 1396 the Piedmontese marquis Thomas III of Saluzzo wrote a long encyclopaedic novel in French in which a knight wanders through the three allegorical worlds of Cupid, Fortuna and Lady Knowledge. Like hardly any other work of …

Fiktionalität trans- und intermedial

Arthurische Möglichkeitsräume in Mittelalter und Moderne

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In this dissertation the author asks if the people in the Middle Ages already had an awareness of fictionality in today’s sense. She investigates this question through a comparison between Middle High German Arthurian romances and modern Arthurian films/television series …

Die Kniga palomnik des Antonij von Novgorod

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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This book contains the first study of the text transmission of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod. From the philological perspective, the edition offers a new text basis for further research into the characteristics, the transmission and reception of …

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 viele Jahrzehnte als Desiderat. Mit dieser Publikation wird nun endlich eine angemessene Edition und Kommentierung sämtlicher einstimmiger Lieder des spätmittelalterlichen Dichters, Sängers und Komponisten Oswald von Wolkenstein …

Die nicht-dramatischen Dichtungen des Hans Sachs

Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

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Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and …

Der Mönch von Salzburg und das lateinische Lied

Die geistlichen Lieder in stolligen Strophen und das einstimmige gottesdienstliche Lied im späten Mittelalter

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The book studies those sacred songs of the Monk of Salzburg corpus which do not rely directly on a Latin–melodic or textual–original. These songs show the form of the canzonic stanza and have therefore been considered to belong into the …

Mystique, langage, musique : dire l’indicible au Moyen Âge

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Music has long since occupied a privileged place in mystical tradition: chants induce ecstasy, visions are accompanied by auditory perception, and above all the mystical vocabulary is shaped by metaphors, allegories and descriptions from the field of music. In this …