Hans-Joachim Ziegeler

Burghart Wachinger

Christoph Huber

The 16 articles in this volume examine interlinkings between religious and secular diction and thought-forms in the literature of the Middle Ages and the Reformation. Though wide-ranging in their methodologies they are united in the sometimes unexpected historical and systematic commonalities they detect in texts of different genres and periods. Together they take up a familiar but hitherto inadequately clarified problem and place it in the context of ongoing debate on the appropriate understanding of medieval literature and culture.

Geistliches in weltlicher und Weltliches in geistlicher Literatur des Mittelalters

Klaus Ridder

Edition, Kommentierung und Übersetzung ins Englische der deutschen Versnovellistik ('Mären') des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts: Es handelt sich um 178 deutschsprachige Verserzählungen mit zusammen ca. 72.200 edierten Versen (insgesamt sind ca. 179.100 Verse überliefert). Die Ausgabe, die in zwei Arbeitsgruppen in Köln und in Tübingen entstanden ist, verfährt überlieferungsnah und nichtrekonstruierend (Leithandschriftenprinzip, Paralleldarbietung, ggf. Transkriptionen, Faksimiles). Sie wird als Buch und in elektronischer Form vorgelegt. Die wichtigsten Ziele sind: Herstellung eines kritisch durchdachten und zugleich lesbaren Textes, angemessene Darstellung der Einzelüberlieferungen und Überblick über die Textvarianz. Die Kommentierung rechtfertigt die Textgestaltung, gibt Verständnishilfen und erleichtert Nichtfachleuten den Zugang. Mit der Ausgabe ist die deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts zur Gänze nach heutigen Standards ediert.

Band 2. Nr. 57-80

Deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Jan-Dirk Müller

The essays in this volume explore the full scope of Maximilian’s Ruhmeswerk, which adaptively incorporated different literary and aesthetic genres. They examine the Emperor’s quest to become an “uomo universale”, or Renaissance man, in the context of the idea of “self-fashioning” at the focus of recent Renaissance research. In addition, the studies consider the impact of changing media conditions as a result of the invention of the printed book.

Künste und Wissenschaften im Umkreis Kaiser Maximilians I.

Maximilians Ruhmeswerk

The volume contains papers on religious and secular drama in the Middle Ages and the early modern age presented at a symposium in Cologne and centering on plays in Latin, Middle High German, Early New German, Middle Low German, and Middle Dutch. A number of papers are devoted to forms of ritualization in pre-modern drama, others examine its relative proximity to liturgy and the (culturally and liturgically determined) sequence of the seasons, while others again engage with the staging of the plays in terms of their ambivalent attempts to appeal to the responsibility of the individual against the background of an ultimate authority, and to arouse and instrumentalize emotions. All in all, the papers discuss the proliferation of early forms of theatricality and in so doing resume a long overdue theoretical discussion initiated by Rainer Warning and centering on the genesis, function, and structure of medieval plays.

Geistliches und weltliches Drama des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

Ritual und Inszenierung

Th is book contains an English translation of German verse-couplet tales ('Maeren') from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. It forms part of a multi-volume edition in which the 'Maeren' are edited in strict accordance with their principal manuscripts and, where appropriate, different versions of the same text are presented in parallel. The most important aims of the edition as a whole are to provide a philologically sound yet readable text and to make different versions of these tales fully accessible, giving the reader a complete overview of textual variance. A commentary explains the textual basis of each edited 'Maere', contains further notes on themes and literary context as well as comprehension- tips for the non-specialist. By virtue of this edition German verse-couplet tales from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries can now be read and studied more easily than ever before.

Hans-Joachim Ziegeler

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