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 …

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

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›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable or dangerous, to positive attributes (»wahnsinnig gut« i.e. »extremely great«). In case studies, this volume …

Des Kaisers neue Bücher

Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Bamberger Kaiser-Heinrich-Bibliothek in 50 Porträts

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Die Staatsbibliothek Bamberg bewahrt als ihr kostbarstes Erbe die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften, die als Stiftungen Kaiser Heinrichs II. (973–1024) bei der Bistumsgründung nach Bamberg gelangten. Aus Anlass des 1000. Todestags des Kaisers werden 50 ausgewählte Codices, also etwa ein Drittel des …

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 …

Der Wilde Alexander

Melodien, Texte, Übersetzungen, Kommentar

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The poet known in tradition as Master Alexander or Wild Alexander was probably active from around 1250 as the author of minstrel songs, sacred songs, chants and a Minneleich. He is considered one of the most important song poets of …

Spielformen des Lyrischen im späten Mittelalter

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The contributions in this anthology shed light on the thematic and poetic diversity of lyrical speech in the German late Middle Ages. The focus is on the productive engagement with genre and discourse traditions, the play with language, religious semantics …

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 …

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 …