This book deals with the first 500 years of German literature (800-1300) and how it was received by contemporaries. Covering the whole spectrum of genres, from dance-songs to liturgy, heroic epics to drama, it explores which works were meant to be recited to listeners, which were destined for the individual reader, and which anticipated a twofold reception. It emphasizes this third possibility, seeing it as an example of the bicultural world of the Middle Ages, combining orality with writing, illiteracy with literacy, vernacular with Latin, lay with clerical.
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"This book is important for what it reveals about literature in German from 800 to 1300; it is of value, too, for the techniques of analysis that it employs. Even during my first reading, I was thinking how some of Green's methods could be modified to fit Old and Middle English literature. I am not the only reader who will be so animated." Modern Philology
"Long accustomed to providing seminal analyses on medieval German literature, Green has again enriched the discipline with the present masterful study." F. G. Gentry, Choice
"Green's book will be useful to scholars, college instructors, and graduate students not conversant in modern German who seek an informed discussion of questions and sources central to orality and literacy in the German Middle Ages." Speculum
"Long accustomed to providing seminal analyses on medieval German literature, Green has again enriched the discipline with the present masterful study." F. G. Gentry, Choice
"Green's book will be useful to scholars, college instructors, and graduate students not conversant in modern German who seek an informed discussion of questions and sources central to orality and literacy in the German Middle Ages." Speculum
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This book deals with the first five hundred years of German literature (800-1300) and how it was received by contemporaries. Covering the whole spectrum of genres, from dance-songs to liturgy to drama, it explores which works were meant to be recited to listeners, which were destined for the individual reader (however rare), and which anticipated a twofold reception.
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When Guillaume Fichet, a member of the Sorbonne, looked back in 1471 on the history of what we today should term communications technology he divided it into three periods: classical antiquity (which employed the calamus or reed pen), followed by a period which for us is the Middle Ages (which used the penna or quill pen), and then a period which had only just begun (characterised by aereae litterae or movable type). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twofold reception, quasi litteratus, miles litteratus, lesen meaning, man liset, unde las, recital situation, double formula, acoustic reception, disem buoche, reciter reading, verb lesen, oral recital, dort vorne, hoeren lesen, hoeren oder lesen, studiosus lector, hoeren sagen, listening reception, edele herzen, sung recital, illiterate laymen, oder hoeren, deictic pointer, oral realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Rudolf von Ems, Ulrich von Lichtenstein, Charles the Great, Herzog Ernst, Gottfried's Tristan, Hohes Lied, Walter Map, Wolfram's Parzival, Der Arme Hartmann, Heinrich von Neustadt, Der Stricker, Hartmann von Aue, Heinrich von Hesler, Priester Wernher, Veldeke's Eneide, Gandersheimer Reimchronik, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Ebernand von Erfurt, Frau Ava, Hugo von Trimberg, Old Testament, Wirnt von Grafenberg, Die Klage, Jans Enikel New!
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When Guillaume Fichet, a member of the Sorbonne, looked back in 1471 on the history of what we today should term communications technology he divided it into three periods: classical antiquity (which employed the calamus or reed pen), followed by a period which for us is the Middle Ages (which used the penna or quill pen), and then a period which had only just begun (characterised by aereae litterae or movable type). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twofold reception, quasi litteratus, miles litteratus, lesen meaning, man liset, unde las, recital situation, double formula, acoustic reception, disem buoche, reciter reading, verb lesen, oral recital, dort vorne, hoeren lesen, hoeren oder lesen, studiosus lector, hoeren sagen, listening reception, edele herzen, sung recital, illiterate laymen, oder hoeren, deictic pointer, oral realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Rudolf von Ems, Ulrich von Lichtenstein, Charles the Great, Herzog Ernst, Gottfried's Tristan, Hohes Lied, Walter Map, Wolfram's Parzival, Der Arme Hartmann, Heinrich von Neustadt, Der Stricker, Hartmann von Aue, Heinrich von Hesler, Priester Wernher, Veldeke's Eneide, Gandersheimer Reimchronik, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Ebernand von Erfurt, Frau Ava, Hugo von Trimberg, Old Testament, Wirnt von Grafenberg, Die Klage, Jans Enikel New!
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- Der Arme Heinrich by Hartmann Von Aue on page 207, and Back Matter
- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 65
- Vita Karoli Magni by Einhard on page 49
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