The critical edition of Schleiermacher's major work, the Glaubenslehre "Doctrine of Faith"] (published in 2003 in two part-volumes 13/1 and 13/2 of the Critical Edition of Schleiermacher's Complete Works, 1st Section) is based on the original printed second edition of 1830/31, which has been compared for the first time with the manuscript in Schleiermacher's own hand re-discovered in 1980.

This critical edition, with over 1000 improvements, some significant, compared with the Redeker edition will in future be the sole authoritative one. It is now published as a handy...

Das altenglische Heldenepos Beowulf entstand wahrscheinlich im 8. Jahrhundert. Es handelt sich um das alteste und einzig vollstandig erhaltene altgermanische Epos. Das Werk erzahlt die Abenteuer des Helden Beowulf im Kampf gegen Unholde und weist an manchen Stellen marchenhafte Zuge auf.

Die neue Auswahledition bietet eine umfassende Einfuhrung in Werk, Stoff und Sprache, den Originaltext (in Auswahl) mit neuer Ubersetzung, ein zugehoriges Worterbuch sowie einen Anhang mit detaillierten Informationen zu Schreibung und Aussprache, zu Metrik und Grammatik sowie zur...

Most of the Nag Hammadi texts originated in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. They form one of the most important manuscript rediscoveries of the 20th century, and their importance for Biblical scholars and Church historians in particular can hardly be overestimated. This volume presents the first complete German translation of the approximately 50 Nag Hammadi texts as well as the Berlin Codex 8502 as an affordable paperback.

Peter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts. In recent decades, there was so much controversy about the authenticity of the documents concerning Abelard and Heloise that the critical interpretation of the texts was relegated to the sidelines. The present volume provides a way out of this impasse. In it, the famous text is subjected to a series of exemplary analyses from the perspectives of seven different 20th century literary theories (aesthetics of...

Die Geschichtsschreiberin Anna Komnene (1083 bis ca. 1153), Tochter des byzantinischen Kaisers Alexios I. Komnenos (1081-1118), behandelt in ihrem Werk die Regierungszeit ihres Vaters von seinen ersten Erfolgen als jugendlicher Heerfuhrer und seiner gegluckten Rebellion bis zu seinem Tod. Die faszinierende Lekture gehort zusammen mit den historischen Darstellungen eines Prokop, eines Michael Psellos und eines Niketas Choniates zu den Glanzleistungen der byzantinischen Historiographie.

The second edition of the 'Parzival' (ca. 1200/1210) continues to offer the authorative text according to Karl Lachmann and the excellent translation of Peter Knecht.

Die vorliegende Leseausgabe der Crone Heinrichs von dem Turlin bietet den vollstandigen Text des Romans in behutsam normalisiertem Mittelhochdeutsch und wurde vollig neu aus der Uberlieferung erarbeitet. Neben textkritischen Anmerkungen erleichtern Ubersetzungshilfen, Kapiteluberschriften und kurze Inhaltsangaben eine erste Begegnung mit dem Roman. Damit steht Heinrichs wichtiges Werk erstmals seit der Ausgabe von 1852 wieder in einer Fassung fur Lehre und (Selbst-)Studium zur Verfugung.

Derivative, unstructured, morally offensive, crudely erotic - such were the dismissive assessments made by German scholars of Heinrich von dem Turlin's Die Krone (The Crown) for many years. Today the peculiarities of this fascinating and eccentric text are viewed as serious critical challenges, and Die Krone has become one of the most-discussed Arthurian romances of the German Middle Ages. This volume provides for the first time a New High German translation of the often difficult to understand Middle High German text, and includes an afterword on the work's poetics...

Considered one of the most important texts of the Late Middle Ages, Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring (ca. 1410) is a comic, didactic, verse narrative of courtship, violence and war that reflects the crisis of meaning and breeches during the transition from the medieval to the modern era. This new translation is based on the sole manuscript and not on the edition previously published by Edmund Wiessner (1931).

For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served as a model for Wolfram von Eschenbach's novel Willehalm. The primary source for the text is the edition based on the Venetian manuscript M (Holtus 1985). Students of German Studies will thus be able to compare the two texts and study both their affinities as well as the completely new form and interpretation presented by Wolfram.