The volume assembles all the studies on Minnesang published so far by Jan-Dirk Muuuml;ller. Their common denominator is the combination of literary theory and the historical perspective on Minnesang, with constant reference to specific examples. The impulses emanating from New Philology prove to have a genuine bearing on Minnesang by virtue of the emphasis on the intrinsic logic of different versions. Other approaches shown to provide valuable insights on this body of literature are the social history perspective, discourse analysis, and aspects of the deconstructivist...

Four prose epics from the 15th century ascribed to Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrucken are examined here from a variety of perspectives: transmission, narratology, cultural semantics. The reconstruction of the narrative strategy is bound up with the question of the way the epics interrelate in the historical context. With recourse to culture-anthropological approaches and reference to writings of a scholarly/academic nature and the illustrations in the manuscript, an attempt is made to point up the differential features of various kinds of text.

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