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A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century
The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the So...
The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and criti...
A Critical Discourse in Premodern German and European Literature
Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on Englis...
Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
The Forest in Medieval German Literature analyzes the topic of the "forest" through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German lite...
Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable ...
A Selection of His Novellas
Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduc...
A Casebook
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that th...
A Myth-Making Process
The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and ...
An Ecocritical Reading
Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the wo...
Literary-Historical Analyses
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism...
An English Translation of the Complete Works (1376/77–1445)
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). O...
The Dark Side of Sex and Love in the Premodern Era
Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s...
Secular and Religious Songs
A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research....
Poetic and Visual Explorations
Viele träumen von Hawai'i, dem 50. Staat der USA. In der Werbung gibt es viele beeindruckende Bilder von diesen Inseln, aber nur wenn man dort länge...
This is the first complete English translation of Oswald von Wolkenstein's poems, regarded as lyric masterpieces of the late Middle Ages....
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings. As ...
Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past
Presentation and critical reading of medieval women writers on a pan-European level. This book brings us up-to-date on research pertaining to women in...
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research h...
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented...
Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages
The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets ha...
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An Anthology of Literary, Theological, and Philosophical Texts
This is an anthology of literary, religious, and philosophical texts from the entire Middle Ages and the early modern age that address already quite e...