Marriage in Wittenwiler's Ring
Author : Charles Gervase Fehrenbach
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Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Marriage in literature
ISBN : 9780404502355
Author : Charles Gervase Fehrenbach
Publisher :
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Marriage in literature
ISBN : 9780404502355
Author : Charles Gervase Fehrenbach
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2013-02
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ISBN : 9781258590536
Author : Charles Gervase FEHRENBACH
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Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Charles Gervase Fehrenbach
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Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Rolf R. Mueller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027209634
This volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage, folly, and play.
Author : Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136537716
This colelction of twelve original essays by European and American scholars, offers some of the latest research in three broad areas of medieval history: marriage, children, and family ties.
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1949
Category : German literature
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Author : Paul H. Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804733731
The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.
Author : Catholic University of America
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1948
Category : German literature
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Author : Philip Grace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1317184750
In one of his sermons, the medieval preacher Bernardino of Siena listed seven ’fathers’ to whom one owed obedience: God, one’s natural father, godfather, confessor, benefactor, a government official, and any elderly man. This book seeks to answer the question of why medieval Europeans saw the need for so many ’fathers.’ Why was fatherhood so appealing as a metaphor? Situated at the intersection of social and cultural history, the study draws upon a variety of late-medieval and early-modern sources including witness depositions, personal letters and pedagogical treatises from the city of Basel, Switzerland. It focuses on how people from different walks of life invoked ideas about fatherhood in the pursuit of various goals - not only the ideological agendas of scholarly elites, but also the more pragmatic problems of closing a business deal, claiming an inheritance, or choosing sides in a fistfight - before turning to what these ideas reveal about fatherhood ’on the ground.’ The book argues that it was precisely fatherhood’s basis in lived experience that gave it a familiar ’shape’ in the several roles that fathers played, including provision, affection, disciplinary authority, and education. The most potent rhetorical aspect of fatherhood, however, was not as a static image or shape, but rather the possibility of invoking connections between one role and another. The most potent connection between roles was the idea that fathers were 'affectionate authorities,' combining power over subordinates with desire for their well-being. Tracing the connections and contradictions of these identities, this study provides a nuanced view of concepts of fatherhood on the eve of the Reformation.