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Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters by Manfred Kern , Alfred Ebenbauer (review)

542 Reviews lugathmende, hassesheisse Pest selbstsiichtiger Umwalzungswuth' of contemporary life. Graff offered his readers just the German text extracted from Notker's origi? nal Latin-German compilation, which contains a complete Latin text as well as the translation and Latin and German commentary material. Subsequent editions by Hattemer (1848-49), Piper (1882), Sehrt and Starck (1933-34), and Tax (1986-90) have reverted to the form in which the work is preserved in the single complete manuscript of Notker's Consolatio, each attempting a slightly differentcompromise between a totally diplomatic rendering of Codex Sangallensis 825 and a reconstruc? tion of what Notker may originally have written (or intended to write), and each of them necessarily therein guided by their own conception of Notker's 'ideal language'. Evelyn Firchow's edition takes the story one step further,for it is the firstedition whose goal has been to provide a text which is essentially a 'typographic facsimile' of the original, recording the page layout as well as the spellings, punctuation, accents, word division, erasures ofthe German and Latin text exactly as they are to be found in the manuscript. The text occupies pp. 4-271 of vol. 1,following the pagination ofthe manuscript (as in Tax's edition). In addition she provides a parallel text ofthe Zurich fragment (four pages), Latin prologues, and an extensive set of computer-generated concordances and word lists (the latter amounting to some 1,496 pages). Firchow's conception fulfilsthe requirements of modern Notker scholarship much better than that of any of her predecessors. On the other hand Tax's much more modest edition in three slim volumes of the Altdeutsche Textbibliothek extends a warmer invitation to readers than these three massive volumes, which come at a price that few libraries in the English-speaking world and no private scholars will be able to afford.What they fail to provide, which was also a failing of previous editions, is an invitation to read the German-Latin text in the context of Boethius's original and the medieval commentary tradition on that original, a project that has now been splendidly achieved in Christine Hehle's recent book Boethius in St. Gallen (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2002). Why do the editions of Notker's Consolatio refrain from providing cross-references to the book and prosa/metrum numbering of the original? St Edmund Hall, Oxford Nigel F. Palmer Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters. Ed. by Manfred Kern and Alfred Ebenbauer, assisted by Silvia Kramer-Seifert. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2003. xcii +722 pp. ?158. ISBN 3-11-016257-1. The reception ofclassical culture in the Middle Ages has become a popular fieldof ex? ploration in all the medieval disciplines, with many recent studies tracing continuities ofthought in political philosophy, rhetoric, cosmology, and historiography, or focusing on translation and textual transmission. Though medieval writers had an ambiguous attitude towards their pagan predecessors, they were intensely interested in what they thought of as a golden age, an ambivalence which Manfred Kern sees typified in the naming of the thirteenth-century Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Perhaps the most obvious expression of this for the reader of medieval vernacular literature is the frequent reference to famous personalities from Greek or Roman an? tiquity who appear in a contemporary guise in courtly novels, love songs, and histories, the motifs being mutated and modified in much the way that we observe also in the far larger repertoire ofbiblical material. For the German Middle Ages at least, a definitive reference work now provides a long-awaited overview of this large body of material. The Lexikon der antiken Gestalten arises out of a long-standing project led by Al? fred Ebenbauer in Vienna, but is in fact edited and written mainly by Kern, with a minority of articles by Silvia Kramer-Seifert. The lengthy and excellent introduction MLR, 100.2, 2005 543 by Kern draws together recurring patterns of reception; foran initial orientation, this is as convenient as any essay currently in print. The complex and varying relationship between the ancient and medieval worlds is explored, with interesting observations on the importance of Alexander and Virgil, and on the...

My Secret Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

<i>My Secret Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages</i>. Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

Jewish-Christian Relations in the German Middle Ages - the Exploration of Alternative Voices? The Deconstruction of a Myth or Factual History? Literary-historical Investigations

Jewish-Christian Relations in the German Middle Ages - the Exploration of Alternative Voices? The Deconstruction of a Myth or Factual History? Literary-historical Investigations

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages

:My Secret Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages

Erotic, sexual and marital images belong to the fundamental stock of human symbols for commitment and union as well as for the endangering of such a union. Their inexhaustible potential has shaped religious and cultural history, giving rise to rich artistic creations during the Christian Middle Ages. Such pictorial and textual sources - here drawn mainly from German secular and religious literature between the 12th and the 17th centuries - form a veritable archive of gender history. What from a Christian point of view had been presented as a principal purpose of human existence - being 'God's free daughter, His Son's bride' - took on an increasingly sexual character and became the particular domain of religious women. Beginning with this eroticized concept of God, this book examines its multiple implications: for the texts themselves as well as their authors and readers, for the relationship with a transcendent partner, and for the secular experience of marriage. After the initial theoretical groundwork, a general survey exemplifying brides of God precedes a detailed study of prominent individuals. My Secret is Mine thus invites very diverse literary brides and their beloveds to shed some light on their experience of that inexpressible, and yet immensely productive, promise of union with love itself.

My Secret Is Mine: Studies in Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

My Secret Is Mine: Studies in Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

The Never-Ending Story of the (German) Middle Ages: Philology, Hermeneutics, Medievalism, and Mysticism

The relevance of Medieval Studies has never been more acknowledged and simultaneously criticized as in the current time. Whereas Medievalists are struggling to maintain their position within academia, some Modernists go so far as to septicly separate their field from anything written prior to 1800 or so. Both the very traditional philological approach to medieval literature and its radical rejection prove to be foolish, as literature has always represented the inter-relatedness of cultural periods. Past voices have always had an impact on the future, and modern concepts increasingly prove to be highly productive in analyzing medieval texts. The novels of five twentieth-century German writers (Musil, Mann, Hesse, Grass, and Muschg) demonstrate that medieval and Baroque literature had a considerable impact on their thinking, and in this sense the past proves to be the text which was inscribed on the readers of the future. In fact, modern literature, whether German, English, French, or Russian, cannot be fully grasped if we ignore the powerful influence of past authors on the writers from today.

Learning and Persuasion in the German Middle Ages. Ernst Ralf Hintz

<i>Learning and Persuasion in the German Middle Ages</i>. Ernst Ralf Hintz

The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350.James A. Schultz

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsThe Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350. James A. Schultz Ann Marie RasmussenAnn Marie Rasmussen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 74, Number 2Apr., 1999 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2887126 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1999 The Medieval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

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James A. Schultz, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages. 1100–1350.

James A. Schultz, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages. 1100–1350.

The knowledge of childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

The knowledge of childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

Chretien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages: Papers from an International Symposium

L'oeuvre de Chretien de Troyes dans une perspective comparatiste, E.M. Meletinsky national perspectives on originality and translation - Chretien de Troyes and Hartmann von Aue, Michael Batts Verligen und Versitzen - das versaumnis des Helden und die sunde der tragheit in den Artustromanen Hartmanns von Aue, Silvia Ranawake aspects of knighthood in Hartmann's adaptations of Chretien's romances and in the social context, William Henry Jackson the heroine's loyalty in Hartmann's and Chretien's Erec, Bernard Willson adapting Enide - Chretien, Hartmann and the female reader, Karen Pratt Chretien, Hartmann, and the knight as fighting man - on Hartmann's chivalric adaptation of Erec et Enide, Martin H. Jones Cliges in Deutschland, Daniel Rocher zu den schwierigkeiten der Lancelot-Rezeption in Deutschland, Walter Blank die konzeption der Artusfigure bei chrestien und in Ulrichs Lanzelet - misverstandnis, kritik oder selbstandigkeit? ein diskussionsbeitrag Isein and Yvain - adapting the love theme, Tony Hunt Rehtre guete als wahrscheinlich gewisse lere - topische argumente fur eine schulmaxime in Hartmanns Iwein, Wiebke Freytag Der aventiure bilde nemen - the intellectual and social environment of the Iwein murals at Rodenegg Castle, Michael Curschmann Wolfram von Eschenbach vor dem Donte du Graal, Rene Perennec heteroglossia and clerical narrative - on wolfram's adaptation of Chretien, Adrian Stevens dialogic transpotions - the grail hero wins a wife, Arthur Groos Clinschor, Wolfram's adaptation of the Conte du Graal - the Schastel Marveile episode, Timothy McFarland Versuch einer vergleichenden Asthetika - die kunst des portrats bei Chretien und einigen deutschen Bearbeitern des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, Jean-Marc Pastre Guillaume d'Angleterre, Gute Frau, Wilhelm von Wenden - zur beschaftigung mit dem Eustachius-Thema in Frankreich und Deutschland, Volker Honemann.

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Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature

Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature

Love, Sex, and Marriage in Late Medieval German Verse Narratives, Lyric Poetry, and Prose Literature

In the late German Middle Ages literary documents reveal a new interest in love, sex, and marriage. Almost all literary genres contain examples of outspoken descriptions of sexual intercourse, either within or outside of marriage. In this article representative pieces from the codex Karlsruhe 408, lyric poetry by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Johannes von Tepl's Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, Heinrich Wittenwiler's Der Ring, and several Volksbücher are used as evidence for this novel interest in eroticism. Although we discover in cases such as the Volksbücher attempts to restructure the torn screen between audience and the private sphere of the protagonists, overall the element of intimacy is brought into public light. Instead of secret voyeurism, a drastic and uninhibited interest in the topic of sex dominates this body of late medieval literature.

The Strassburg Alexander and the Munich Oswald. Precourtly Adventure of the German Middle Ages

The Strassburg and the Munich Oswald, heretofore never translated into English, were written during the third quarter of the twelfth century, a time when German narrative verse was beginning to escape the domination of the Church and appeal primarily to the secular interests of the public. The Alexander is a version of one of the most popular stories of antiquity and all time. The Munich too is based on the deeds of an important historical figure: the seventeeth-century King Oswald of Northumbria, who was instrumental in the defeat and Christianization of the West Saxons.

Germany in the High Middle Ages c. 1050-1200

Part I. German history in the High Middle Ages - Concepts, Explanations, Facts: 1. The three 'essentials' of history - space, time, and man 2. Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages Part II. 'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century: 3. Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period 4. Rex et sacerdos - the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56) 5. Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship 6. Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes 7. The beginnings and aims of church reform 8. The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England and the North Part III. From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest: 9. The reign of Henry IV and its consequences 10. The rise of the secular state and the priestly church Part IV. Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship: 11. The results of the investiture contest 12. 'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux 13. Lothar III: kingship without a future 14. Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory Part V. The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age: 15. The election of Frederick I and the policy of balance: Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism 16. Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy 17. New forms of government 18. Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity Bibliography Index.

Archaeology vs. History: Heinrich Hubsch's Critique of Neoclassicism and the Beginnings of Historicism in German Architectural Theory

ed from its historical context. It was a debate as much contemporary as historical in its impetus, although in 1822 Hiibsch had not yet formulated that architectural programme of his own, which Weinbrenner's renowned Karlsruhe Bauakademie, which Hiibsch attended from 1815 to 1817, was reputed throughout Germany as the upholder of the highest classical ideals, the only place, according to Goethe, where the True was to be found. It was, however, a truth which Hiibsch was disposed to question from the outset, although he took much of fundamental importance from the rationalist cast of Weinbrenner's pragmatic instruction. Unlike most of the some one hundred students who passed through the Academy, Hiibsch had pursued a university c reer in Heidelberg from 1813 and 1815, before turning to architecture. There he had read mathematics and philosophy in the very years in which a b illiant constellation of literary figures, historians, an philosophers engaged in a revisionist interpretation of antiquity and an almost intoxicated discovery of the German Middle Ages was at an apex. The poles of Hiibsch's experience in Heidelberg, which later coalesced under Hegel's influence into the dialectical components of his historical point of view, framed his early critique. The classicial philologist Friedrich Creuzer especially shaped Hiibsch's critical historical imagination. Creuzer, who is best known for his efforts to ground the study of Greek mythology on scientific bases, was engaged in a radical re-reading of antiquity. Its method and assumptions would prove fundamental to Hiibsch's later critique of the neoclassical construct of antique architecture. As Professor Arnaldo Momigliani has pointed out, Creuzer was one of a whole generation of German scholars who sought to THE OXFORD ARTJOURNAL 5:2 1983 a: