Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature 800-1300

by D.H. Green

Book Overview

This book deals with the first 500 years of German literature (800-1300) and how it was received by contemporaries. Covering the whole spectrum of genres, from dance-songs to liturgy, heroic epics to drama, it explores which works were meant to be recited to listeners, which were destined for the individual reader, and which anticipated a twofold reception. It emphasizes this third possibility, seeing it as an example of the bicultural world of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521444934
• ISBN13: 9780521444934
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"