?The Lucidarius, a 12th century compendium of knowledge about God, the universe and salvation, was one of the most successful German books up into the modern age. Its origin is linked with the name of Henry the Lion. This volume covers the medieval manuscript transmission of the Lucidarius and explores its readership, geographical impact and text reception. 46 illustrations and maps, tables and manuscript stemmata are included in the work. Two essays on the oldest world map in a German text and the prologues A and B? so important for the history of the manuscript transmission? round off the study.

This history of brief novella-type narratives in the European literatures of the Middle Ages extends from the earliest beginnings in the 12th century to the final ousting of the verse narrative by the cyclical verse novella established by Boccaccio in the course of the 16th century. The historical interrelations can only be properly understood in their European dimensions. Accordingly, this survey can serve as a model for a comparative history of the genre.

The Index gives ready access to the German vocabulary of the edition of the "Vocabularius Ex quo." With its high contemporary incidence and broad dissemination, the dictionary supplies a representative picture of vocabulary organization and vocabulary movement in the 15th century. The Index provides access to the vocabulary via standardized Early High German forms. As such it can stand in its own right as a dictionary of 15th century German.

The Latin-German AVocabularis Ex quoA was, to judge from the more than 270 surviving manuscripts and some fifty incunabula editions, the most commonly used late medieval alphabetical dictionary on German soil. It was meant by its anonymous compiler-author to enable pauperes scolares to read and literally understand the Scriptures and other Latin texts. It dates from the late 14th century and, spreading all over the then German speaking countries, kept being copied until the last decades of the 15th century. During that very productive tradition it was subject to continuous change: almost every manuscript reveals different text. Yet, groups of manuscripts can be classified as descendants of nine major and most widely used revisions, eight of which are synoptically represented in the present edition. The text itself is accompanied by an introductory volume containing an up-to-date review of the research done on that subject, the lists of manuscripts and 15th century editions, an account of the A1/4berlieferungsgeschichtliche (K. Ruh) editorial principles, the classification of the text's tradition, and an alphabetical index of the more than 20.000 Latin entries.

This index of the subjects addressed in the journal Germanistik between 2000 and 2004 is a pendant to the index of names published last year. It facilitates comprehensive and convenient access to the material discussed in the journal, given the fact that the subjects addressed in the articles are frequently difficult to identify on the basis of the titles. The five volumes covered here contain 33,390 titles. The most important and wide-ranging concepts (aesthetics, society/literature, critical editing, textual criticism, etc.) are listed with explanations referring to individual epochs or writers' names. Linguistic disciplines like phonetics, syntax, phraseology, etc. are related to individual languages or different stages of evolution in German. In the period in question, the journal produced a substantial body of studies on text genres and lexicology, special languages, genres, motifs, and other aspects of research in German Studies.

The cumulative a oeSubject Index Germanistik 1990-1994a continues the previously published cumulative indexes for 2000-2004 and 1995-1999. The indexes provide comprehensive and more user-friendly access to the data. The volumes evaluated for the present index contain 36,888 titles. The terms used, which have varied over the years, have, as far as possible, been standardised and expanded. Searching has been simplified through a system of cross-references and the refined form of the column titles. In addition to the terms distributed throughout the index, motifs, lexicological studies, names, inscriptions, runes are grouped under the relevant term such as a oemotif, a a oelexicology.a

The Encyclopedia of German Literary Studies is the standard work of German language and literature studies. It explains all of the important terms of the field precisely and extensively. The terminology of different genres (e.g. drama, poetry, short novel), as well as those of methodology (e.g. hermeneutics, structuralism) and literary theory (e.g. author, narrative perspective), are exhaustively illustrated with regard to their etymology and subject matter. Each article features an extensive bibliography. The encyclopedia is now available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition. The contents of this edition are identical to those of the original hardback edition (1997-2003) and, just as the original edition, provide the first source of information for all questions about the basic concepts in the field of German language and literature studies.