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The Orphan Stone - The Minnesinger Dream of Reich (Hardcover, New)
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The Orphan Stone - The Minnesinger Dream of Reich (Hardcover, New)
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Americans have long viewed the Middle Ages with an emphasis on
Chaucer and the French and Latin traditions. As a result, the later
developments of European literature and history often take us by
surprise. From our perspective, the Reformation, the birth of
capitalism, and the new humanism appear as if from nowhere. The
part missing is the history and literature of the German Middle
Ages. While German and French publications in this field are
common, the world of the German Middle Ages has not been addressed
in English for many years. Filling the gap for non-German speakers,
The Orphan Stone blends history and literature in a strong
narrative line to portray the critical years of the medieval Reich
through the eyes of the poets of the holy Roman Empire--the
Minnesinger. Modelled after the French Troubadours, the Minnesinger
created brilliant lyrics and narratives that are the foundation of
much of German literature and thought. Familiarity with their work
and the historical context in which they operated is essential to
fully understanding the culture of Freud, Wagner, Mann, Rilke, and
writers as diverse as Musil and Kundera. Even the Nazis borrowed
symbolism and pageantry from the Minnesinger in their distortions
of history. In The Orphan Stone, the Minnesinger come alive as
individuals and shake us with their sophistication about men and
women in love, and with their ethical sense and human
understanding. Two in particular, Walther von der Vogelweide and
Gottfried von Strassburg, are acknowledged, along with Goethe, as
the finest poetic talents in the German language. The Minnesinger
created Tristan, Parzival, the Nibelungs, Kriemhild, and Poor
Henry. They also endowed a jewel in the imperial crown, the Orphan
Stone of history, with symbolic powers to elevate and ennoble all
people on whom it shined. Along with this fable, The Orphan Stone
contains many of our most cherished stories and universal myths
which were dreamed by the Minnesinger of the medieval Reich.
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