GERMAN

Handbuch Minnesang

By Beate Kellner (editor); Susanne Reichlin (editor); Alexander Rudolph (editor)

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2021
ISBN
9783110351859, 9783110351811
DOI
10.1515/9783110351859
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (13006755 bytes)
Pages
857\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-20 23:19:29

Description

The Minnesang, or courtly love-song, is the most important type of medieval German lyric. The texts in this handbook portray the Minnesang in great depth, discussing their authors, subjects, semantics, and various research questions. At the same time, this book situates the history of German Minnesang in the context of European love poetry. Bases Minnesang scholarship on a completely new foundation. Puts the most important genre of medieval lyric poetry into a new perspective. Gives an overview of key concepts, genres and history of Middle High German Minnesang in its European context.

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