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Selected Chapters from Medieval Literature

Class at Faculty of Education |
OB2307A31

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1. - Lorscher Bienensegen, Gegen Rähe, Nesso-Spruch

2. - Das Muspilli, Heliand

3. - Das Ludwigslied

4. - Pfaffe Lamprecht: Das Alexanderlied

5. - Minnelieder

6. - Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (Ausschnitt)

7. - Gottfried von Straßburg: Tristan und Isolde (Ausschnitt)

8. -  Hartmann von Aue: Der arme Heinrich (Ausschnitt)

9. -  Wernher der Gartenaere: Helmbrecht (Ausschnitt)

10. -  Oswald von Wolkenstein (höfische Lyrik)

11. - Der Stricker: Der Pfaffe Amis

12. - Johannes von Saaz: Der Ackermann aus Böhmen

Annotation

The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with German medieval literature, its development from its beginning to the end of the Middle Ages. Students will become familiar with the most important directions of medieval literature and with the most important authors and works.

Early Middle Ages: Incantations, Blessings, herioc lay Hildebrandslied, Wessobrunn Prayer, Muspilli, Heliand, Otfrid's Gospel Book (Evangelienbuch), Lay of Ludwig (Ludwigslied). High Middle Ages: Imperial Chronicle (Die Kaiserchronik, pre-courtly epic - Alexanderlied, Spielmannsepik, Early Minnesang (Der von Kürenberg), Walter von der Vogelweide.

Courtly epic - Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Straßburg. Heroic epic Nibelungenlied.

Late Middle Ages: Der Stricker – fable (bispel), humorous stories, Wernher der Gartenaere (Meier Helmbrecht). Konrad von Würzburg.

Frauenlob. Mysticism (Mechtild von Magdeburg, Meister Eckhart).

The last lesson will be the interpretation of the work of John of Tepl (Johannes von Tepl) Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, which is already a transition to humanism.