In dieser Studie werden die Einflusse des okonomischen, politischen und gewerkschaftlichen Umfeldes sowie interne Rahmenbedingungen des Kooperationsprozesses als Voraussetzungen einer erfolgreichen Kooperation analysiert."

The examination of the context of medieval sermons essayed in this volume focuses on a variety of aspects: the dominant intra- and extra-literary influences, the use of literary forms and types, the adaptation of theological subject matter for proclamation from the pulpit, the influence of liturgy and audience (congregations), the interaction between word, writing and image, and not least the tensions operative in the relation between sermons in practice and their subsequent written forms. The Devotio moderna and sermons in Latin figure prominently in the overall layout. The volume also contains seven hitherto unpublished sermons, some of them in critical editions.

This volume contains papers by Germanists, historians, and art historians from Germany, Austria, the United States and Canada on visual and conceptual aspects of early modern city culture ranging from representations of the city to urban spatial and social practices. The essays focus on some of the culturally most vibrant cities in early modern Europe, with special emphasis on German-speaking countries: Nuremberg, Cologne, Vienna, Ghent, Munich, Amsterdam, Florence, and Rome. The topics include the dissemination and control of city images, carnivalizing performances of social/religious dissent, narrative constraints in fifteenth-century urban historiography, Christian humanism and the controversy over Jewish books, the Carthusian influence on the spiritual topography of a city, the humanist agenda in imperial entries, the evolution of three-dimensional city models, transposing Renaissance Italian song models into a transalpine city context, and the emergence of the city views known as vedute.

Die Beitrage widmen sich der Sangspruchtradition vom Beginn bis zur meisterlichen Lieddichtung und zum Meistergesang und nahern sich ihr in kommunikationsgeschichtlicher Perspektive: Das aktuelle Paradigma der Performanz wird vom Minnesang auf die Schwestergattung ubertragen; Redepositionen, Geltungsanspruche und -strategien werden analysiert. Weiterhin werden die Spannungsfelder in den Blick genommen, in denen sich Sangspruchdichtung und Meistergesang bewegen; dies umfasst Wechselbeziehungen zu anderen Gattungen ebenso wie Affinitaten zu nichtliterarischen Diskursen.