Author: Robert G. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Concept of Reht (Iustitia) in Early Middle High German Religious Literature
Author: Robert G. SullivanJustice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature
Author: Robert G. SullivanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136708324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book argues that far from preaching traditional, otherworldly ideals, the authors or these religious works were deeply engaged in the social, political, and spiritual issues that characterized the Holy Roman Empire at a time of radical transformation.
Loyalty and Riches in Wolfram's Parzival
Author: Randal SivertsonPublisher: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This study of Wolfram's Parzival concentrates on service for riches in medieval knighthood. The epic is interpreted as a conflict between reciprocal feudal loyalty and self-centered mercenary service. The actions of Gahmuret, Anfortas, Parzival, and Feirefiz are held up against the historical background of the crusades, where service for abstract ideals is undermined by service for material gain. Although the power of riches is subdued by the sword in the end, the author maintains that the Parzival is an heroic defense of feudal values in an historical state of decline. He also criticizes traditional Parzival interpretations based on the chivalric system of the virtues, religious didactics, courtly love relationships, and dynastic relationships.
Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature
Author: Robert G. SullivanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136708251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book argues that far from preaching traditional, otherworldly ideals, the authors or these religious works were deeply engaged in the social, political, and spiritual issues that characterized the Holy Roman Empire at a time of radical transformation.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The End-times in Medieval German Literature
Author: Ernst Ralf HintzPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571139893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Author: Gustaf E. KarstenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Secret in Medieval Literature
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666917877
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.
A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse
Author: Michael A. RyanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004307664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse offers a range of essays regarding apocalyptic expectations and apprehensions from antiquity to early modernity.
Latin
Author: Jürgen LeonhardtPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.