Middle Ages

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 …

Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)

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This first study of the late medieval Greek churches in Cyprus investigates over 300 buildings. It addresses the historical and artistic context of these churches, the first part containing more traditional methodological approaches such as the analysis of stylistic developments …

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 …

Thomas von Cantimpré ›Liber de naturis rerum‹

Kritische Ausgabe der Redaktion III (Thomas III) eines Anonymus

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Auf der Grundlage der Enzyklopädie „Liber de natura rerum“ des Dominikaners Thomas von Cantimpré wurde im 13. Jahrhundert von einem anonymen Redaktor die sog. ‘Thomas-III’-Version gefertigt. Aus Interesse an den Naturdingen selbst hat er das vorgefundene Material exzerpiert, neu aufbereitet …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 22 (2018/2019): Romania und Germania. Kulturelle und literarische Austauschprozesse in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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Der Kultur- und Literaturtransfer zwischen dem romanischen Sprachraum und den deutschsprachigen Ländern gehört zu den Grundbedingungen der hochmittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur. Entsprechende Einflüsse sind ebenfalls im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit noch produktiv, wurden bislang aber noch nicht systematisch untersucht. …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 21 (2016/2017): Sangspruchdichtung zwischen Reinmar von Zweter, Oswald von Wolkenstein und Michel Beheim

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Der von überwiegend professionellen Autoren des späten 12. bis ausgehenden 15. Jahrhunderts ausgeübte Spruchsang, gesungene Strophen und Lieder religiösen, didaktischen, politischen Inhalts, ist eine der wichtigsten Gattungen der deutschen Dichtung des Mittelalters. Die literar- und musikhistorische Forschung befasst sich gerade …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 19 (2012/2013): Oswald von Wolkenstein im Kontext der Liedkunst seiner Zeit

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The South Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1377-1445) is the most notable German lyricist of the late Middle Ages. The present volume contains 25 articles in total, which have been compiled from the presentations at a great conference held …

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 …

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 …

Kleine Schriften zu Themen, Werken und Theorien der älteren deutschen Literatur

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On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Freimut Löser, professor in ordinary for German language and medieval literature and holder of the Chair for German Language and Literature at the University of Augsburg, this volume with a selection of …

Arbeiten an Welt- und Selbstbild im ,Welschen Gast‘ Thomasins von Zerclære

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Thomasin von Zerclaere's 'Welsh Guest' is a Middle High German behavioural theory from around 1215/16, with an extensive picture cycle. At first glance, the text may appear to be a jumbled collection of individual admonitions, undergirded by recordings from encyclopaedic …

Belles Lettres. Les figures de l’écrit au Moyen Âge / Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter

Colloque fribourgeois 2017

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The publication is the result of the Freiburg Colloquium 2017 on the topic "Belles Lettres. Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter". The publication deals with the various phenomena of the design of medieval manuscript pages and takes an interdisciplinary approach.

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 …

,Rasse‘ und Raum

Topologien zwischen Kolonial-, Geo- und Biopolitik: Geschichte, Kunst, Erinnerung

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Wissen entsteht nicht unabhängig von Räumen, sondern ist schon in seiner Formierung selbst an Prozesse der Verräumlichung gebunden. Historisch zunächst als visuelle Differenz konstruiert, spielt für die Konstruktion rassischer Unterschiede die Dimension des Raumes ebenfalls eine zentrale Rolle.

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …

Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit

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Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new age. This new approach resulted from a combination of innovation and historicity, …

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 …

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: New results and future Perspectives Internationales Kolloquium 18. – 19. Mai 2018 in München

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The publication on Rough Cilicia "Identity and cultural Exchange in Ancient Cilicia: New Results and Future Perspectives" combines the results of a workshop held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in May 2018. It contains a series of individual studies that …

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 …