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This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan. The work is approached both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the text. The contextual reading compares Gottfried with his predecessors Beroul, Eilhart and Thomas in order to reveal his independent response to the problems and possibilities with which he was confronted by his material. The close textual reading builds up a distinctive interpretation of the work, in which particular attention is paid to Gottfried's reworking of literary tradition, his use of religious analogies, and his awareness of the fictive potential of literary language. A concluding chapter examines Gottfried's medieval reception through the work of his continuators, Ulrich von Turheim and Heinrich von Freiberg, and the Herzmaere of Konrad von Würzburg.

Tristan (Legendary character) --- Arthurian romances --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- Romances --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Gottfried, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Tristan

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.0Meditating about death and the afterlife was one of the most important techniques that Christian societies in medieval and early modern Europe had at their disposal for developing a sense of individual selfhood. Believers who regularly and systematically reflected on the inevitability of death and the certainty of eternal punishment in hell or reward in heaven would acquire an understanding of themselves as a unique persons defined by their moral actions; they would also learn to discipline themselves by feeling remorse for their sins, doing penance, and cultivating a permanent vigilance over their future thoughts and deeds. This book covers a crucial period in the formation and transformation of the technique of meditating on death: from the thirteenth century, when a practice that had mainly been the preserve of a monastic elite began to be more widely disseminated among all segments of Christian society, to the sixteenth, when the Protestant Reformation transformed the technique of spiritual exercise into a bible-based mindfulness.

Death in literature --- Literature, Medieval. --- Mortality in literature --- European literature --- Future life --- Retribution --- Future punishment --- Retribution --- Mortality in literature. --- Future punishment --- Future life --- Death in literature. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Early works to 1800. --- Early works to 1800. --- Christianity --- Early works to 1800. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Early works to 1800. --- Christianity --- Early works to 1800. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Christianity. --- Christianity. --- 1500-1700

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How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regions and languages of medieval Europe, from Iceland, Scandinavia, and Iberia through Irish, Welsh, English, French, Dutch, Occitan, German, Italian, Czech, and Croatian to Medieval Greek and the East Slavonic of early Rus. Focusing on vernacular scripted cultures and their complicated relationships with the established literary cultures of Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic, the volume's contributors describe the processes of emergence, consolidation, and institutionalization that make it possible to speak of a literary tradition in any given language. Moreover, by concentrating on beginnings, the volume avoids the pitfalls of viewing earlier phenomena through the lens of later, national developments; the result is a heightened sense of the historical contingency of categories of language, literature, and territory in the space we call 'Europe'.

Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- European literature.

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Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe

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“The most important part of the title of this book is the word ‘and’.” These words form the memorable conclusion to D.H. Green’s study Medieval Listening and Reading, they encapsulate how, in the Middle Ages, orality and literacy are not to be considered as two separate and largely unrelated cultures or modes of textual transmission, but as elements in a mutual interplay and interpenetration. In this volume, scholars from Britain, Germany and North America follow Green’s insistence on the conjunction of medieval orality and literacy, and show how this approach can open up new areas for investigation as well as help to reformulate old problems. The languages and literatures covered include English, Latin, French, Occitan and German, and the essays span the whole of the period from the early Middle Ages through to the fifteenth century.

930.85.42 --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Literacy --- Literature, Medieval --- Oral tradition in literature. --- Oral tradition --- History --- History and criticism. --- Oral tradition in literature --- History and criticism --- Beschavingsgeschiedenis --- Green, Denis Howard --- Histoire des civilisations --- Huldeboeken --- Letterkunde van de Middeleeuwen --- Littérature du Moyen Age --- Mélanges --- Tradition orale --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Alphabétisation --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Green, Dennis Howard, --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Oral tradition - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Literacy - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Green, D. H.