The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

✍ Scribed by Winder McConnell (editor), Werner Wunderlich (editor), Frank Gentry (editor), Ulrich Mueller (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land of origin. Its international influence extends from literature to music, art, film, politics and propaganda, psychology, archeology, and military history.

Now for the first time all references to the vast Nibelungen tradition have been catalogued in this comprehensive encyclopedia containing nearly 1000 entries by several dozen international contributors, including the most distinguished scholars in the field. Readers will find illuminating passages on a variety of topics, including literary and extra-literary references, characters and place names, significant motifs and concepts, historical background, and cultural reception through the centuries. This monumental work is an invaluable guide to a fascinating, age-old tradition.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
The Nibelungen Tradition
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Contributions
Part I Primary Works
Part II Personal and Place Names
Part III Themes, Motifs, Objects, and Key Words
Part IV Manuscript Collections and Literary/Historical Analogues
Part V Scholarship
Part VI The Literary Reception of the Nibelungen Theme in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Part VII The Literary Reception of the Nibelungen Theme in Non-German-Speaking Countries
Part VIII Music and Composers
Part IX Art, Artists, Film, Filmmakers, Sculpture, and Sculptors
Part X Miscellaneous: Historians, Clerics, Politics, the Military, Propaganda, Psychology, Education, Icongraphy, and Geography
Translations of the Nibelungenlied and the Klage Other than German
Selected Bibliography
Index