Author: Emil WellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Annalen Der Poetischen National-literatur Der Deutschen Im XVI. und XVII. Jahrhundert
Author: Emil WellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture
Author: Edward Payson EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Beards and Texts
Author: Sebastian CoxonPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in didactic poetry concerned with wisdom, teaching and learning, and in comedic texts that were designed to make their audiences laugh, not least by submitting various figure-types to the indignity of having their beards manhandled. Four main chapters each offer a reading of a work or poetic tradition of particular significance (Pfaffe Konrad’s Rolandslied; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm; ‘Sangspruchdichtung’; Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring), before examining cognate material of various kinds, including sources or later versions of the same story, manuscript variants and miniatures and further relevant beard-motifs from the same period. The book concludes by reviewing the portrayal of Jesus in vernacular German literature, which represents a special test-case in the literary history of beards. As the first study of its kind in medieval German studies, this investigation submits beard-motifs to sustained and detailed analysis in order to shed light both on medieval poetic techniques and the normative construction of masculinity in a wide range of literary genres.
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
Author: Rebecca Wagner OettingerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135191636X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared across the German territories. These polemical songs included satires on the pope or on Martin Luther, ballads retelling historical events, translations of psalms and musical sermons. They ranged from ditties of one strophe to didactic Lieder of fifty or more. Luther wrote many such songs and this book contends that these songs, and the propagandist ballads they inspired, had a greater effect on the German people than Luther’s writings or his sermons. Music was a major force of propaganda in the German Reformation. Rebecca Wagner Oettinger examines a wide selection of songs and the role they played in disseminating Luther’s teachings to a largely non-literate population, while simultaneously spreading subversive criticism of Catholicism. These songs formed an intersection for several forces: the comfortable familiarity of popular music, historical theories on the power of music, the educational beliefs of sixteenth-century theologians and the need for sense of community and identity during troubled times. As Oettinger demonstrates, this music, while in itself simple, provides us with a new understanding of what most people in sixteenth-century Germany knew of the Reformation, how they acquired their knowledge and the ways in which they expressed their views about it. With full details of nearly 200 Lieder from this period provided in the second half of the book, Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation is both a valuable investigation of music as a political and religious agent and a useful resource for future research.
Songs & Poems
Author: Robert BurnsThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Kufferath to Litton
Author: Stanley SadiePhenomenology of Eros
Author: Jonna BornemarkPublisher: Sodertorn University
ISBN: 9789186069469
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The German Lyric of the Baroque in English Translation
Author: George C Editor SchoolfieldPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013577659
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Musica Getutscht
Author: Sebastian VirdungPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521308305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.
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Author: Stanley Sadie