Medieval German Voices In The 21st Century

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490734

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Medieval German Voices in the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

As witnessed by a tremendous upsurge in medieval research, academic meetings, innovative interpretive approaches, enrolment numbers, and public interest, Medieval Studies are proving once again to be a vibrant field of investigations both inside and outside of academia. Nevertheless, there is a tendency among colleagues and administrators in the field of Germanistik/German Studies to exclude the earlier period as an exotic and irrelevant subject matter. The contributors to this volume, all of whom teach at North American universities, make a strong case for the paradigmatic function of medieval German literature for the general field of Germanistik, and argue that many of the most recent changes in our discipline related to the German Studies paradigm have been foreshadowed by Medieval Studies where interdisciplinarity, comparative approaches, the consideration of Mentalitätsgeschichte, theology, history, art history, even gender studies, and the history of everyday life have often constituted the conditio sine qua non. Some of the authors in this volume argue for the relevance of medieval German literature by investigating concrete cases taken from the Middle Ages, others show how modern German literature has been deeply influenced by medieval texts. The purpose of this volume is not to privilege medieval literature over modern literature, but instead to reclaim the premodern period as an important and relevant field of investigation within contemporary German Studies.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110897777

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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.

Author : Cynthia J. Cyrus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802093691

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The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany by Cynthia J. Cyrus Pdf

Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.

Author : Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139894

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The End-times in Medieval German Literature by Ernst Ralf Hintz,Scott E. Pincikowski Pdf

Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135309879

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Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Stephen C. Meyer,Kirsten Yri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190658465

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism by Stephen C. Meyer,Kirsten Yri Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo Pärt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.

Author : Kathleen Ashley,Kathleen M. Ashley,Wim N. M. Hüsken
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042012552

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Moving Subjects by Kathleen Ashley,Kathleen M. Ashley,Wim N. M. Hüsken Pdf

Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of "moving subjects" they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110895445

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Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shift initiated, as there is an overwhelming body of evidence to show that in medieval and early modern times too there were close emotional relations between parents and children. The contributors to this volume demonstrate conclusively on the one hand how intensively parents concerned themselves with their children in the pre-modern era, and on the other which social, political and religious conditions shaped these relationships. These studies in emotional history demonstrate how easy it is for a subjective choice of sources, coupled with faulty interpretations – caused mainly by modern prejudices toward the Middle Ages in particular – to lead to the view that in the past children were regarded as small adults. The contributors demonstrate convincingly that intense feelings – admittedly often different in nature – shaped the relationship between adults and children.

Author : Clare Flanagan,Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9042014725

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1949/1989 by Clare Flanagan,Stuart Taberner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781580445016

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Ava's New Testament Narratives by Anonim Pdf

Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127. It seems certain that she was a layperson, and her work reflects a level of learning that raises all sorts of interesting questions about the education of the laity, especially the education of lay woman, and about the nature of authorship in the Middle Ages, generally and particularly in medieval Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520660

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Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.

Author : Claire Taylor Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249552

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Ruling the Spirit by Claire Taylor Jones Pdf

In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises the narrative of women's involvement in the German Dominican order, arguing that Dominican women did not lose their piety and literacy in the fifteenth century as is commonly believed, but instead were encouraged to reframe their practice around the observance of the Divine Office.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038420545

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The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1" that was published in Humanities