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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 compendium is the first work to provide a complete and
methodologically reflected documentation of the maxims and sayings
in medieval German Arthurian, Grail and Tristan romances. A
differentiated listing collects the maxims in 21 romances from a
span of some 100 years (approx. 1170a '1300), reflects their
narrative context, gives a semantic explanation via a paraphrase,
locates them in the aphoristic network of the relevant text by
pointing to parallel passages, and using citations from the Bible
and medieval literature in Latin and the vernacular(s) locates them
in the relevant tradition of their usage.
Thisvolume is devoted to an historical lexical and conceptual
analysis of poetological expressions in German medieval literature,
expressions such as schrift (a >scripta (TM), a >writinga
(TM)), rede (a >speecha (TM)), buoch (a >booka (TM)),
tihtaere (a >poeta (TM)), vindaere (a >purveyora (TM) [a
>of wild talesa (TM)]), hA"ren (a >heara (TM)), lesen (a
>reada (TM)), erniuwen (a >renewa (TM)), voltihten (a
>composea (TM)), etc. Despite individual studies, these terms,
which are of central importance in medieval texts, yet are only
vaguely defined in them, have largely been neglected by researchers
and have hardly ever been presented as a connected system. However,
these terms do open the way to an understanding of central aspects
of medieval views of literature and of the historical conception of
works and authors. The volume presents a collection of papers by
renowned medievalists on key terms and items in medieval poetics
and historical semantics.
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