The volume presents a collection of papers by noted German and British medievalists, who join the discussion on the concept of text in German Medieval Studies. This topic has been intensively discussed in recent years, as new insights from editorial philology, narratology, and media theory have led to 'medieval text' becoming an open and methodologically elusive concept. The contributors weigh the theoretical arguments and apply the methodological outcome to text exemplars from the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.

This volume assembles the findings of the 14th Anglo-German colloquium on German medieval literature. The 22 contributions all revolve around the subject of "Author and Authorship," a theme very much in the foreground of discussion in present-day medieval literary studies. Most of the articles are case studies and draw on texts from the whole gamut of German medieval literature to discuss such issues as the relation between performance, textuality and authorship, the functional status of author's names and author's pictures in manuscript traditions, a historically adequate concept of authorship, the various roles played by authors and the specific profiles these roles display in different genres.

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