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The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND
KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of
Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to
1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for
German Literary Studies. Edited by Ernst Osterkamp and Werner
Roecke at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the series presents
examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in
conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with
the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies
with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the
Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series.
As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of
intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other,
Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative
studies. The publications of the series include monographs,
doctoral and professorial theses and thematically focused volumes
of collected papers. Works presented for acceptance in the series
are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in
method and presentation.
Over 500 different examples of minnerede have been preserved.The
texts, in which a first-person subject articulates his experience
of courtly love or his knowledge about it, testify to the strength
of a continuous fascination with this topic in the Late Middle
Ages. Concentrating on the genre of minnerede, the twelve papers in
this volume develop innovative approaches to the relationship of
text and culture in the Middle Ages.The starting point is an at
first provocative initial thesis, which however leads to the
surprising conclusion that what modern readers might find 'trivial'
in a pejorative sense was a source of great fascination for
medieval readers of these discourses of courtly love.Thus attention
centres around the density of repetition, the availability of
rhetorical gestures, the conventionality and the breaks with
convention, the metaphorical indulgence and the construction of
gender roles.
As a versatile author and preacher, Erasmus Alberus belonged to the
immediate circle of Luther and Melanchthon. His Fables are
presented here in the final form in which he published them. The
present edition is the first to reproduce the illustrations and to
provide explanatory notes. The volume also includes the shorter
first edition of 1534.
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