A Companion to Middle High German Literature to the 14th Century

✍ Scribed by Francis G. Gentry

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 515
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is a guide to medieval German literature from its beginnings in the eighth century to the fourteenth century. It will escort the motivated student and colleague with interest in the European Middle Ages but no expertise in older German languages. The chapter authors, all internationally-known scholars, were given the freedom to arrange their chapters as they felt most appropriate, including the question of the terminus ad quem. Chapters deal either with a chronological period, e.g. 13th century, or with specific genres, eg. drama. In addition, chapters both on the historical epoch and on the development of the German language in the medieval period have been included. In general, historical and cultural topics play an important role in each chapter.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
1. Medieval Germany: History of Emperors and Empire, c. 750–c. 1350......Page 14
2. The Older German Language......Page 40
3. German Literature to 1160......Page 66
4. Courtly Love Lyric......Page 130
5. Medieval German Heroic Epic......Page 164
6. Love and Adventure in Germany: The Romances of Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Straßburg......Page 228
7. Drama......Page 302
8. Technical Literature (Fachliteratur)......Page 332
9. German Mystical Literature to 1350......Page 358
10. Vernacular Chronicles......Page 392
11. Pre-Courtly Epics......Page 410
12. Continuation and Innovation in Narrative Literature of the Thirteenth Century......Page 444
13. Didactic/Gnomic Literature of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries......Page 488
B......Page 504
D......Page 505
E......Page 506
G......Page 507
H......Page 508
L......Page 509
M......Page 510
P......Page 512
S......Page 513
T......Page 514
Z......Page 515