Trial by fire and battle in medieval German literature

Trial by fire and battle in medieval German literature /

Medieval judicial ordeals, especially trial by fire or battle, conjure up vivid pictures in the modern imagination. Yet popular perceptions of the Middle Ages leave the reader without a context in which to understand these most drastic of medieval judicial remedies. This book analyzes literary texts...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziegler, Vickie L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, ©2004.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
1050-1500
German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism.
Ordeal in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature > Middle High German.
Middeleeuwse romans (teksten)
Duits.
Duels.
Rechtspraak.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Decoding the codes: treason in the late medieval Karlsepik: Der Stricker's Karl der Grosse and the Karlmeinet
  • The ordeals of Tristan and Isolde
  • Saintly queens under fire in the Kaiserchronik and in Heinrich und Kunegunde
  • Coda: Der Stricker's "Das heisse Eisen."

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