Ancient, classical & medieval texts

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Tradition B

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With the edition of the „tradition B“ of the Latin medieval Persius commentaries the edition of all Persius scholia ( from 9th – 16th century 75 testimonies) is completed (vol. I: tradition A, D, E, 2009; vol. II: tradition C, …

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 …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E

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The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3 of the 5 anonymous traditions. This project, serving also as a …

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 …

The manuscript transmission of Platos laws (books I and V)

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The study is dedicated to a detailed evaluation of the existing manuscript evidence of Plato's Nomoi as well as to the explanation of the textual tradition of this work. The mutual relationships of the existing textual witnesses are explored in …

Thomas von Cantimpré ›Liber de naturis rerum‹

Übersetzung des Textes der Redaktion III (Thomas III) eines Anonymus

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Based on the encyclopaedia "Liber de natura rerum" by the Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré, the so-called 'Thomas III' version was produced by an anonymous editor in the 13th century. Out of interest in natural things themselves, he excerpted the found …

Schicksal – Zufall – Willensfreiheit

Kontingenz im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg

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The tale of the fall of Troy is - and was already in the Middle Ages - a popular and oft-told story, and the tragic end of the war between Greeks and Trojans can be considered anchored in cultural memory. …

guldîne linge

Fünf Essays zu Gottfrieds Tristan

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In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Straßburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of ancient, Celtic, French, Medieval Latin and German traditions. Furthermore, he incorporates aspects of material culture and contemporary scholarly knowledge. This book’s five essays can be read …

Didaxe und Natur

Darstellung und Funktionalisierung der Natur in Thomasins von Zerklaere ,Welschem Gast‘, in Freidanks ,Bescheidenheit‘ und in Hugos von Trimberg ,Renner‘

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Using vernacular examples from ‘didactic literature’, it is questioned which role the verbalisation of nature plays in a didactic context and which knowledge systems come together in its textualisation. The work demonstrates how talking about nature enables a dynamic amalgamation …

Die hippokratische Schrift Praecepta

Kritische Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Mit Anhang: Ein Scholion zu Praec. 1

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The ancient medical text Praecepta, which contains deontological rules on the ideal behaviour of physicians towards patients and colleagues, is one of the most difficult work of the Corpus Hippocraticum. The author offers a new critical edition of the Greek …

Handschriften- und Textforschung heute

Zur Überlieferung der griechischen Literatur. Festschrift für Dieter Harlfinger aus Anlass seines 70. Geburtstages

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This volume is a collection of papers on Greek and Byzantine manuscript studies. The main topics covered are related to the textual transmission of texts from Antiquity, to the study of particular manuscripts and scribes, to broader topics in the …

Überlieferungsgeschichte transdisziplinär

Neue Perspektiven auf ein germanistisches Forschungsparadigma

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Die Überlieferungsgeschichte gehört zu den bedeutendsten Forschungsparadigmata, welche die Altgermanistik resp. literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik in den letzten fünfzig Jahren hervorgebracht hat. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fragen nach der Aktualität des Paradigmas und nach den Möglichkeiten seiner Weiterentwicklung, nach seinem generellen theoretisch-methodischen …

Tugendlehre und Wissensvermittlung

Studien zum ,Welschen Gast’ Thomasins von Zerklaere

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By centering the category ‘knowledge’, this book offers a new analytical access to Thomasin von Zerklære’s Welscher Gast. In doing so, it can be observed that various areas of knowledge are used to convey a kind of ethical orientational knowledge, …

Zur mittelalterlichen Überlieferung von Aristoteles’ De motu animalium

Die Bedeutung der Übersetzung Wilhelms von Moerbeke und der Paraphrase Alberts des Großen für die griechische Texttradition

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In der vorliegenden Studie wird die Position und die Bedeutung der beiden mittelalterlichen lateinischen Textfassungen der Aristotelischen Schrift De motu animalium – eine Übersetzung Wilhelms von Moerbeke und eine Paraphrase Alberts des Großen –, in der griechischen Überlieferung bestimmt und …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Tradition C

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The satires of A. Persius Flaccus (34 - 62 A.C), written in the times of the Roman emperor Nero, were a favourite reading in pagan as well as in christian antiquity, also in medieval times (we know about more than …

Konrad von Würzburg ,Trojanerkrieg‘ und die anonym überlieferte Fortsetzung

Kritische Ausgabe

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Konrad’s von Würzburg ‘Trojanerkrieg’ - only fragmentary preserved because of its author’s death in 1287 and finally completed by an anonymous writer at the beginning of the 14th century- was one of the most-read books of that time and it …

Das Arzneibuch Ortolfs von Baierland

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Around 1300, a surgeon named Ortolf – born in the duchy of Bavaria and settled in Wurzburg – wrote a textbook of medicine, which in brief covers all topics of medieval medicine – beginning with its theoretical background, then proceeding …

Das ‚Debrecener Pflanzen- und Tierbuch‘

Die illustrierte deutsche Ps.-Apuleius Handschrift Debrecen R 459. Faksimile, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentare

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The Debrecen Book of Plants and Animals, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Library of the Reformed Theological University in Debrecen (Hungary), is the only illustrated German tranlsation of the most broadly disseminated corpus of herbal medicine from the Latin Middle …

Georgische Handschriften

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Few languages ​​in the world look back on more than 1500 years of uninterrupted written tradition – Georgian, the language of the Christian country south of the Caucasus, is one of them. Since their Christianisation in the fourth century, Georgians, …

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 …