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

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 Middle Ages, combining orality with writing, illiteracy with literacy, vernacular with Latin, lay with clerical.

Author: Dennis Howard Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/06/2005
Pages: 500
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780521020886

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