German Medieval Research Articles

Dějiny historické vědy. Normativní příběh vlastního oboru nebo reflexivní dějiny kulturní praxe?

This polemic article is a reaction to the collection Německá medievistika v českých zemích do roku 1945 / German Medieval Studies in the Czech Lands up to 1945. In it the author considers contemporary Czech scholarship on German historiography of the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century and criticises the methodologically unexplained limitation of the work to medieval studies. He argues against the rigid division of German historiography into university and regional and the unambiguous definition of economic and social history as the matrix for distinguishing between two German historiographies. From the methodological point of view he challenges the use of almost any kind of normative assumptions when writing the history of historiography. He regards the best research approaches to be those that use biographical analysis to uncover the strategic practice of specific historians. Conversely he questions studies concerned with identifying the contribution of Germans historians to the crimes of Nazism and its legitimisation, and takes a sceptical view of the possibility of distinguishing between ideological "deformation" and "pure scholarship".

А.В. Назаренко как филолог

The notes below deal with that side of life and works of the historian of Ancient Rus’ and the Russian church Alexandr Vasiljevich Nazarenko which is connected with his philological education, his philological talents and interests, and his philological studies that greatly influenced his scientific achievements. Especially important is his philological contribution to the source-critical studies of German Medieval texts that preserved information on Eastern Europe and the monuments of Old Russian ecclesiastical literature. Philological education enabled A.V. Nazarenko to professionally interpret German people- and place-names as well as the terms and to retrieve additional historical information. His works are a model of integrated, historical and philological, approach in historical studies.

Памяти Найджела Ф. Палмера

The article is dedicated to the memory of Nigel F. Palmer (1946 – 2022), a regular contributor to ‘Odysseus’, an outstanding scholar, Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall (University of Oxford), FBA.

Bonds and beards: New Work on gender in German medieval studies

The German QuarterlyEarly View REVIEW ESSAY Bonds and Beards: New Work on Gender in German Medieval Studies Susanne Hafner, Corresponding Author Susanne Hafner [email protected] Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Susanne Hafner, Corresponding Author Susanne Hafner [email protected] Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 12 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12339Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

The Category of Time in the Semantic Field tugent (on the Material of the German Medieval Treatise “Der welsche Gast”)

The Category of Time in the Semantic Field tugent (on the Material of the German Medieval Treatise “Der welsche Gast”)

“Only for Specialist” Medical Charms: Holistic Therapy in the German Medieval and Early Modern Tradition

Abstract In this study, a corpus of almost unknown medieval and early modern healing-related charms is presented and discussed as being part of a holistic practical therapy combining conventional medical and surgical remedies with verbal formulas aimed at reinforcing the practitioner-patient-relationship and at propitiating the good outcome of the healing process. In this respect, these texts constitute a specific category of charms specifically addressing physicians and surgeons who recited them before or during a procedure.

Die deutschen Königspfalzen, ed. Helmut Flachenecker, Bernd Päffgen, and Rudolf Schieffer. Teilband 1.2.: Altbayern Regensburg, ed. by Peter Schmid. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, 379 pp.

Within the framework of the “Pfalzenrepertorium,” which is repeatedly described as one of the most important long-term projects in German Medieval Studies, the second volume on the royal palaces in Old Bavaria is now available. The death of Rudolf Schieffer (Bonn) in 2018, who had made a special effort to organize this volume of sources of the Bavarian royal palaces, occurred during the preparation of this volume.

Sine mugens nicht erdenken: wand ez kan vor in wenken rechte alsam ein schellec hase**: Women’s German Medieval-Arthurian Scholarship

Abstract This article offers a survey of German Medieval Studies as a discipline, focusing on three generations of women’s German Medieval-Arthurian scholarship. This scholarship demonstrates a breadth of discipline that might be perceived as unusual in contrast to Anglophone or Francophone Arthurian scholarship; this breadth is however characteristic of scholarship in German Medieval Studies. The authors analyse significant publications and female scholars within German Medieval Studies to shed a light on research areas, institutional developments as well as key figures that have emerged in German Arthurian scholarship over the last half-century. The authors conclude not only that the practice of truly interdisciplinary research has become a hallmark of today’s female scholarship, but also that new spaces have been created (and continue to emerge) for women to write, publish and teach in German Medieval-Arthurian scholarship.

Transmission and Materiality: Philology, Old and New, in German Medieval Studies

This essay addresses the reception of the New Philology, and its more recent iteration, material philology, in German medieval studies. Whereas the New Philology elicited a largely skeptical response from practitioners of textual criticism and editorial philology, approaches informed by cultural studies have been more open to a constructive engagement with its tenets. Nevertheless, the question remains open as to whether German medieval studies have really followed the lead given by material philology and placed the manuscript as a physical object at the center of research to the extent that is often claimed.

The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts

The article presents the author's Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in German Medieval Literature and Linguistics, delivered on Thursday 21 January 2016. The subject of the lecture is a new acquisition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, a psalter written ca. 1500 by the nun Margaret Hopes in the Cistercian convent of Medingen near Lüneburg, MS. Don. e. 248. The hypothesis advanced is that the nuns use the materiality of their prayer-book as the embodiment of their devotion. The psalter is analysed in terms of its physical realization (material, layout, writing, corrections, music, illustrations, and additions) and its execution interpreted as a spiritual act. The journey of the manuscript beyond the Middle Ages is highlighted through the accommodation of the manuscript to the Lutheran Reformation and the addition of a bone plaque with a floral border in the nineteenth century, reflecting the contemporary concept of the medieval object. The purpose of the lecture is an enquiry into the changing history of manuscripts as objects of devotional, antiquarian and scholarly interest.Photos of the psalter Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 248 by Henrike Lähnemann (1,2,4,5) and Laura Light (6), reproduced by permission of the Bodleian Libraries.

Why Surface Reading Is Not Enough: Morolf, the Skin of the Jew, and German Medieval Studies

This essay makes a case for the continued necessity and usefulness of so-called “symptomatic reading” within the context of German medieval studies. To demonstrate this necessity, the essay focuses on a short episode at the beginning of the medieval German minstrel epic Salman und Morolf in which Morolf, brother of Salman, the Christian king of Jerusalem, disguises himself in the skin of a murdered Jew in order to retrieve Salman’s wife Salme, who has been kidnapped by a heathen king. Because the “surface” of the text offers no specific comment on how the episode should be received, solving the puzzles it elicits is only possible by a reading that takes into full account things like historical context (the crusade milieu) and interpretive tools like repression and projection. Using these tools, the essay articulates how the episode operates in relation to the fraught status of the Jew in both Germany and the Middle East. As a conclusion, the essay then offers a broader reading of the epic in which the figure of the disloyal pagan queen represents the elusive quality of the Holy Land vis-à-vis Western sovereignty.

The German Reformation and Medieval Thought and Culture

AbstractThis essay asks the question, is it useful to approach the Reformation as a phase in a linear chronology, a movement away from the Middle Ages? On the example of Matthias Flacius Illyricus and the formation of Lutheran identity in the third quarter of the sixteenth century, I argue that Protestants had a vested interest in the continuity of their beliefs with medieval thought and culture. The familiar idea of a medieval‐Reformation rupture is largely an invention of the nineteenth century. The research of recent decades, which I survey, has shown the limitations of this idea. I conclude with a proposal for seeing cultural change within multiple, overlapping chronologies.

Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance.

Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance.

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Strofering: Funksie en betekenis∗

Summary In an effort to explain the function and meaning of stanzaic segmentation in poetry, the following hypothesis is argued on the basis of semiotic structuralism and empirically supported by way of references to Old Testament literature, German Expressionist poetry, Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Keats, Sotho praise‐poems and Medieval debate poetry: If inter‐stanzaic space functions as blank, then the blank is most informative when it de‐automatizes the information communicated within the stanzas, in other words, when inter‐stanzaic space implies the presence of narrative and/or dramatic manifestations for the enhancement of the poetic principle. Methodological directives for a standardized analysis of the function and meaning of stanzaic segmentation are logically inferred from the hypothesis and conclude the research report.

German Medieval Tales

German Medieval Tales

German Medieval Tales

German Medieval Tales

German Medieval Towns and the Ministeriales : Towns East of the Rhine

German Medieval Towns and the Ministeriales : Towns East of the Rhine

German Medieval Literary Patronage from Charlemagne to Maximilian I: A Critical Commentary with Special Emphasis on Imperial Promotion of Literature

German Medieval Literary Patronage from Charlemagne to Maximilian I: A Critical Commentary with Special Emphasis on Imperial Promotion of Literature

German Politics and Medieval History

The Third Reich proclaimed by Hitler was to evoke the First Reich of the Middle Ages. 'None of those', the historian Hermann Heimpel wrote in I933, 'who helped bring about the Third Reich and who hailed its advent has failed to mention the First Reich'. Even so, leading German national-socialists were not altogether happy with the historians of the First Reich. In 1937, at the Erfurt congress of historians, Walter Frank, the President of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany, criticized the medievalists for lagging behind the modern historians in developing new attitudes, and in I940 he complained in the Historische Zeitschrift that medievalists had produced practically nothing so far on the overall problem of the Jews in the Middle Ages. There is a tendency for direct contacts between politicans and historians to intensify the interaction between political events and historiography. Scientific and personal interests, conviction and ambition, anti-conformism and opportunism get mixed up and colour the attitudes and the output of the historians. It is, of course, not possible in a brief essay to do even approximate justice to the subtle complexities of historiography during the period in question. All that can be done is to draw attention to certain widespread characteristic tendencies. In doing so, I shall refrain from discussing and passing judgment on the political views of individual historians which are not fully reflected in their work. A few exceptions apart, I shall quote only those historians who have enjoyed a high reputation, at least among their colleagues. In Germany, the first half of the twentieth century was shaped by three events the birth of the Weimar Republic, Hitler's advent