Middle Ages

L’auteur dans ses livres: autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge

What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his …

Reinmarbilder

Das Textkorpus ‚Reinmar von Zweter‘ und seine Wandlungen in Überlieferung und Rezeption

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Reinmar von Zweter is the most important Sangspruch poet between Walther von der Vogelweide and Frauenlob. Within German poetry of the time, the transmission of his works is unique in two ways. A systematic collection of his Sangsprüche must have …

Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?

Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter

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The book deals with the practices and authorisations of legislation in the Middle Ages. Laws laid down norms, but they were also subject to norms. These were not only based on traditions, but also referred to goals that were to …

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

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The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific …

„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 dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which creatures are independent and self-acting beings. For the …