Chivalry in Twelfth Century Germany: The Works of Hartmann Von Aue

by W.H. Jackson

Hartmann von Aue is a major figure in medieval German literature; his works are important in the history of chivalry, highlighting its key features at an important phase of transition and consolidation. His unusual position as an educated knight gave him access to the worlds of clerical learning and spirituality as well as secular aristocracy, and he draws on all these sources to provide a complex and revealing vernacular self-interpretation of knighthood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859914313
• ISBN13: 9780859914314
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"