Böcker i TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions-serien

Neidhart is one of the most important German poets of the medieval era, his satirical songs standing in marked contrast to courtly love songs. This book presents annotated English translations of a representative collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet, making them accessible to an audience of students and scholars of medieval studies.

Texts of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning - that is not found elsewhere in the European Middle Ages. Usefull in teaching as they illustrate a great number of characteristic medieval ways of writing.

A remarkable product of an important period in German literature and indeed in medieval European culture; it may be argued with considerable justification that Der Welsche Gast is the most significant didactic work of the German High Middle Ages.

This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven 14th- and 15th-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document.

Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127.