This book offers the first complete English translation of the
poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein
(1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading
poets of his time and created some of the most exciting,
experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the
entire Middle Ages and far beyond. German scholarship and
musicologists have long recognized the extraordinary strength and
power of Oswald's Middle High German songs, both in terms of his
poetic imagery and his musical performance. This book proves
Oswald's oeuvre to be one of the most idiosyncratic and
individualistic in the entire late Middle Ages. Classen reveals how
Oswald continued the medieval tradition, yet was a true innovator,
exploring new attitudes toward love, sexuality, travel, war,
politics, language, music, and, above all, his own
individuality.
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