The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, in the eighteenth century as Pimería Alta. This was the area where the Jesuits operated all by themselves, and many of them, at least since the 1730s, originated from the Holy Roman Empire, hence were identified as Germans (including Swiss, Austrians, Bohemians, Croats, Alsatians, and Poles). Mo...

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy tales, but the medieval ...

Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and German prose novels, and late medieval short verse and prose narratives as well as the...

Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware of the importance of water to sustain all life, to provide understanding of life’s secrets, to mirror love, and to connect the individual with Go...

Wie gerne schielt man über den Atlantik, von hüben nach drüben, mit Bewunderung und mit Spott. Wieviele Missverständnisse gibt es nicht allenthalben, und auch der Alltag erweist sich als manchmal recht verdrießlich. Soll man aber nur darüber schimpfen, oder bietet sich nicht eher das verhaltene Lachen an. Amerika - du hast es so viel besser (Goethe) - , naja, vielleicht sollte es heute ganz umgekehrt lauten, Deutschland, du hast es, ach nein, das lassen wir mal lieber bleiben.In se...

Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social and cultural meanings across time periods, little has been written about literary representations of prostitution. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature analyses the work of writers from an array of social positions, including courtly poets and even religious writers, dealing with the topic during the medieval and early m...

Amerika ist schon ein schrulliges Land, vielleicht weil so viele Menschen aus der ganzen Welt hier ankommen, vielleicht aber auch, weil es so groß und immer noch so jung ist. Aber die politische Situation und das Verhalten der Menschen allgemein geben doch viel Anlass, sich eher sarkastisch darüber zu äußern. Albrecht Classen lebt und lehrt nun schon seit 1984 in den USA, seit 1987 in Arizona, und da ergeben sich zahllose Möglichkeiten, etwas satirisch darüber zu reflektieren, wie der Allt...

By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating how their characters fared in this sylvan space, the role of the forest proved to be of supreme importance in understanding the fundamental relationship between humans and nature. The me...

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern Europe...

englische Haikus, die über die Welt, Natur und die Menschen reflektieren und zum Nachdenken anregen. Sie sind alle in Reaktion auf meine eigenen Fotos entstanden, die ich oftmals auf FB veröffentlicht habe.

Poetic reflections about the self, our society, nature, politics, values, truth, love, passion, and also faith.Das E-Book Deep Poetic Gazes Into the World wird angeboten von tredition und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:The, And, Red, You, For, Are, With, Have, This, That, One, From, When, They, Would, But, Its, Can, Like, What, Had, Time, Through, Day, Must, Your, Nbsp, Water, His, Could

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem, and marriage was often characterized by brutality. Albrecht Classen brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars in this volume to investigate the co...