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Minnesang --- German poetry --- German literature --- Middle High German, 1050-1500 --- History and criticism --- German poetry - Middle High German, 1050-1500
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No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Germany and Europe as the 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied. In the English-speaking world, however, the poem has remained little known, languishing without an adequate translation. This wonderful new translation by eminent translator Burton Raffel brings the epic poem to life in English for the first time, rendering it in verse that does full justice to the original High Middle German. His translation underscores the formal aspects of the poem and preserves its haunting beauty. Often called the German lliad, Das Nibelungenlied is a heroic epic both national in character and sweeping in scope. The poem moves inexorably from romance through tragedy to holocaust. It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king. In his foreword to the book, Michael Dirda observes that the story "could be easily updated to describe the downfall of a Mafia crime family, something like The Godfather, with swords." The tremendous appeal of Das Nibelungenlied throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is reflected in such works as Richard Wagner's opera tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, Fritz Lang's two-part film Die Nibelungen, and, more recently, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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"Der Ritterspiegel" des Johannes Rothe (4.108 Verse) ist die umfangreichste ritterliche Standeslehre des Mittelalters in deutscher Sprache. Sie wurde für junge Adlige vermutlich im Zusammenhang mit Rothes Tätigkeit als Schulleiter in Eisenach ab 1414 verfasst. Abgesehen von der literarhistorischen Bedeutung als Lehrgedicht, ist das Werk eine reiche Quelle für die Kultur- und Rechtsgeschichte des Rittertums, welche die traditionellen Züge des Standesmodells auf die Situation des 15. Jahrhunderts zuspitzt. Rothes Tugendadel-Konzept impliziert soziale Mobilität, also Auf- und Abstieg innerhalb der Ständehierarchie. Erörtert werden eine Geschichte des Rittertums; das Recht auf die Führung von Wappen und sieben Standesprivilegien; Regeln zu Kampf und Kriegsführung, die christlich moralisierend oder rein praktisch ausgerichtet sind; Aufgaben des Heerführers; Bedeutung der Astrologie. Der thüringische Text wurde auf Basis der Kasseler Handschrift neu ediert und übersetzt, der Kommentar erschließt sprachliche Fragen, historische Bezüge und den Quellenfundus des Werkes. Johannes Rothe's Ritterspiegel [Mirror of Chivalry] with its 4108 verses is the most comprehensive medieval knightly primer in German. In all probability it was written for young nobles in the context of Rothe's work as school head in Eisenach from 1414. Apart from its significance for the history of literature as a didactic poem, the work provides a rich source of information on the cultural and legal history of chivalry which focuses the traditional characteristics of the model of social estates on the situation in the 15th century. Rothe's concept of virtuous nobility implies social mobility, i.e. promotion or demotion within the hierarchy of estates. The following are explicated: a history of chivalry, the right to bear arms and seven privileges of the estate, rules on combat and warfare, these being oriented in either a moralising Christian or a purely practical direction, tasks of an army commander, the significance of astrology. The Thuringian text has been newly edited and translated on the basis of the Cassel manuscript; the commentary resolves linguistic issues and historical references and elucidates the source materials for the work.
Chivalry -- Early works to 1800. --- German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism. --- German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500. --- Knights and knighthood -- Early works to 1800. --- Knights and knighthood. --- Rothe, Johannes, -- d. 1434. -- Ritterspiegel. --- Rothe, Johannes, d. 1434. Ritterspiegel. --- Didactic Poem. --- Etiquette. --- Johannes Rothe. --- Mirror Literature. --- Ritterspiegel.
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German literature --- Fiction --- History of civilization --- Thematology --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- Court epic, German --- German poetry --- History and criticism. --- Court epic, German - History and criticism. --- German poetry - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - History and criticism.
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In welcher Weise war Lyrik im Mittelalter und in der Antike Bestandteil von sozialem Handeln? Mit Beiträgen von Harald Haferland, Albrecht Hausmann, Gert Hübner, Beate Kellner, Jan-Dirk Müller, Timo Reuvekamp-Felber und Markus Stock bietet dieser Band einen Überblick über aktuelle Positionen der mediävistischen Lyrikforschung und führt die Debatte über die soziale Funktion und den kommunikativen Ort von Minnesang weiter; der altphilologische Beitrag von Marcus Deufert und der romanistische von Michael Bernsen erweitern die Perspektive auf die grundsätzliche Dimension der in der Germanistik diskutierten Fragen
German poetry --- Lyric poetry --- Minnesang --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- German poetry - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - Criticism and interpretation --- Lyric poetry - History and criticism
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Proverbs, German --- Epic poetry, German. --- German poetry --- German language --- History and criticism. --- Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi. --- Proverbs, German - History and criticism. --- German poetry - Middle High German, 1050-1500. --- German language - Middle High German, 1050-1500.
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German poetry --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Goshawk in literature --- Renaissance --- History and criticism --- German poetry - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - History and criticism --- German poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Renaissance - Germany
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