Abstract
After a brief sketch of the literary dynamics of plural authorship(s) in Medieval (Latin) literatures, the chapter focuses on a prominent, yet atypical phenomenon: the bilingual German-Latin poems among the Carmina Burana. These poems, it is argued, function within a principal dynamics of early and flexible transmission (or ‘wandering’) of single German stanzas unbound by individual authorship. As a reading of Carmen Buranum 169 (Hebet sidus) shows, these Latin poems characterized by their German final stanzas can be understood as learned interventions into the literary matrix of vernacular poetry, or Minnesang. Constellating two literary traditions in this way of marked plurality opens aesthetic spaces that are used to investigate from a critical perspective of learned clerical authors the tensions behind the loving subject of early German Minnesang.
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