Mediaeval style

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 …

Kommentar zum IV. Buch des „Parzival“ Wolframs von Eschenbach

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Through the commentary of book IV of Wolfram’s Parzival a significant desideratum within Parzival-commentary has been filled. The volume at hand is particularly useful in that it concentrates decisively on text indexing while presenting comprehensive information with philological meticulousness and …

Gewaltstrategien: Codierung und Inszenierung von Gewalt im vorreformatorischen Nürnberger Fastnachtspiel

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In zahlreichen Fastnachtspielen von Hans Rosenplüt und Hans Folz ist Gewalt enorm frequent – das breite Repertoire reicht von Wortdelikten über physische und sexuelle Gewalt bis hin zu massivem, gewalttätig agierendem Fremdenhass. Auf der Basis eines Gewaltbegriffs, der gleichermaßen die …