Friderich von Hûsen: Introduction, Text, Commentary and Glossary (Anglica Germanica Series 2) - Softcover

Mowatt, D. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521155533 ISBN 13: 9780521155533

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Friderich von H-sen, twelfth-century Minnesinger, was a knight from Kreuznach in Rhine Franconia. He was in the entourage of the Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, and died on a crusade to the Holy Land on 6th May 1190. His surviving poetry, consisting of a corpus of love poems and a group of crusading songs, is preserved in two manuscripts in Middle High German. Professor Mowatt's edition comprises a diplomatic reprint of both manuscripts, together with introduction, commentary and glossary. The introduction offers a theoretical justification for this procedure by dealing in detail with the bases of the text, what is known about the poet, and the principles of interpretation and textual emendation. Professor Mowatt adopts a literary critical standpoint; the contributions of scholarship and textual criticism must be subordinates to and regulated by a critical analysis of the structure of the poems under consideration.

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Book Description:

Professor Mowatt's edition of Friderich von H-sen's poetry comprises a reprint of the two Middle High German manuscripts in which it is preserved, together with introduction, commentary and glossary. Von H-sen, twelfth-century Minnesinger, was a knight from Kreuznach in Rhine Franconia and died on a crusade to the Holy Land.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521155533
• ISBN 13: 9780521155533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222