Henrike Lähnemann

Nicola McLelland

Nine Miedema

Die Weitergabe von Wissen und Fertigkeiten ist ein Kernbereich mittelalterlicher Lebenswirklichkeit. Die deutsche Literatur kann dabei entscheidende Einblicke geben, wie sich das Feld des Lehrens, Lernens und Bildens vom 8. bis 16. Jahrhundert entwickelt. Theoriegeleitetes Wissen und praxisbezogene Handlungsanweisungen werden nicht nur in im engeren Sinne didaktischen Texten vermittelt. Lehrhaftes Sprechen und der Anspruch, lêre und bilde zu bieten, ist ein Grundprinzip auch der erzählenden Texte, der Lyrik und der Spiele. Die hier versammelten Beiträge des XIII. Anglo-German Colloquium in Nottingham (2013) geben somit einen faszinierenden Einblick in das ganze Spektrum mittelalterlicher Wissensvermittlung im Spannungsfeld schriftlicher und mündlicher Traditionen.

XXIII. Anglo-German Colloquium, Nottingham 2013

Lehren, Lernen und Bilden in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Anne Simon

Elizabeth Andersen

The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany. Through discussion of a rich, varied selection of mystical and devotional texts, also translated into English, a fascinating regional "mystical culture" with a far-reaching impact is revealed.

A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages

Sandra Linden

Didactic rhetoric is a fundamental feature of medieval literature. In this book Poetry and Didactics renowned Germanists study key German texts of the 12th to the 15th centuries to elucidate their didactic dimension and their rhetorical strategies. The book opens up a completely changed perspective on the functional relationships of medieval German literature and sketches a consistent general picture of the situation of literature in the Late Middle Ages.

Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Dichtung und Didaxe

Kevin R. Brine

Elena Ciletti

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.

Henrike Lähnemann

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