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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Middle High German"”.
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Historical Distance and Difference in the Twelfth-Century Middle High German Kaiserchronik
… to emphasis the historical closeness of the Germans or of discrete German peoples to the body and history of the Roman Empire. This is especially poignant during the Caesar episode, which sees the inauguration of the Empire as an imperial genealogy and in the Charlemagne episode, which marks …
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die sah man weinen. The Representation of Emotion and Dispute in Middle High German Heroic Epic
… the depiction of conflict and emotion in Middle High German heroic epic from an anthropological perspective, thereby establishing the norms and practices that obtain within the fictive societies the texts present. I argue that these epic narratives problematize the anxieties of medieval …
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"The ""Expositio in Cantica Canticorum"" of Williram of Ebersberg: An edition and translation with forward and backward concordances to the German text"
… an important, though somewhat neglected, early Middle High German manuscript, containing commentaries in poetic Latin and prose German. As a literary text, it provides in encapsulated form a fairly comprehensive overview of the medieval 'Weltanschaung'. Its linguistic value is also great since …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
The poetry of the Middle High German vernacular poet Heinrich von Meißen, better known as Frauenlob (ca. 1250/60–1318), is infamous for its hermeneutic difficulty, derived from the poet’s linguistic novelties and erudite use of intellectual source material. Recent scholarship has rescued the poet …
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Multiple Allegiances, Conflicting Attributions of Honor, and the Resulting Moral Dilemmas In the Nibelungenlied
<p>The Nibelungenlied has offered German Studies a unique example of medieval literature that is highly valuable for teaching Middle High German as well as German literary history. The Nibelungenlied has many interesting literary qualities that over the centuries have generated an abundance of …
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Being and method in Eckhart and Heidegger
… between being and method in Eckhart's Latin and Middle High German writings. It argues that, in order to understand being as releasement, one must be released, and it analyses various ways in which Eckhart endeavors to cultivate such releasement. I turn to Heidegger in Part Three, where I show …
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‘Sîn liet erklang im schône…’: A Reassessment of the Role of the Fiddle and Harp in the Performance of Minnesang (c. 1170–c. 1340)
… has been effectively ignored in the equivalent German repertory, i.e. minnesang. The current thesis aims to address this lacuna. After briefly tracing the history and current position of scholarship on minnesang and instrumentation, the thesis will thoroughly investigate relevant literary, …
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The perfect in Old English and Old Saxon: the synchronic and diachronic correspondence of form and meaning
Most of the Germanic languages developed new tense forms allowing the grammatical expression of fine semantic distinctions, including periphrastic perfects and pluperfects; previously, the preterite alone had been used to express semantic content of this sort. In the absence of robust quantitative …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… medical texts printed in Augsburg called the German Medical Incunabula Corpus (GeMedIC). The study first introduces key prior research and the socio-historical background information necessary in preparation for various linguistic studies. It then explains the process of GeMedIC’s digital …
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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun
… text, <em>The Saga of the Volsungs,</em> and two Middle High German texts,<em> </em>the <em>Nibelungenlied</em> and <em>Kudrun.</em> All three exhibit a similar uneasiness about gender performance. In these epics, fears about gender fluidity are founded on the slaying of hybrid mythological …
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Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… other — in three representative texts of the Middle Ages, the Old English 'Beowulf' (manuscript c.1000), the Persian epic, 'The Shahnameh' (c.1010) and Gottfried von Strassburg’s Middle-High German poem, 'Tristan' (c.1210), as it delves into the cataclysmic aftermath of their corporeal …
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The indistinguishability between God and man in the thoughts of Meister Eckhart.
This dissertation considers the work of the German 13th and early 14th century Dominican known as Meister Eckhart, with a particular focus on how Eckhart presents the indistinguishability between God and man. I have chosen to use the term indistinguishability because, although union with God …