Didactic rhetoric is a fundamental feature of medieval literature. In this book Poetry and Didactics renowned Germanists study key German texts of the 12th to the 15th centuries to elucidate their didactic dimension and their rhetorical strategies. The book opens up a completely changed perspective on the functional relationships of medieval German literature and sketches a consistent general picture of the situation of literature in the Late Middle Ages.
Didactic rhetoric is a fundamental feature of medieval literature. In this book Poetry and Didactics renowned Germanists study key German ...
The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Luneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by...
The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lunebur...
