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Introduction: Friendly Chivalrous Enemies—Contradiction, Stereotypes, and Colonialism in the Representations of Muslims by Medieval Christians
Literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries often present contradictory...
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The Learned Conquerors and Their Muslims: Intercultural Conflict and Collaboration in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Llibre dels fets
Two thirteenth-century works, the autobiographical narrative Llibre dels fets and the compilation of poems Cantigas de Santa Maria, were either...
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An Empire of Faith and Its Infidels: Portuguese Colonialism and Muslims, According to Os Lusíadas and Its Sources
Although the sixteenth-century epic Os Lusíadas is set in an expanding colonial world that extends from the Americas to the Moluccas, its author,...
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Kulturgeschichte
Die höfische Lyrik ist eng mit den politischen Verhältnissen der Stauferzeit verbunden. Kaiser Heinrich VI. trat als Minnesänger auf, und viele...
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Minnesang
Das Kapitel enthält beispielhafte Interpretationen von Liedern aller Minnesänger von den Anfängen bis Walther von der Vogelweide. Vorgestellt werden...
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Nicholas Love, Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ
Nicholas Love’s Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ was a hugely popular text in later medieval England. It is a translation of an earlier...
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Birgitta Andersdotter
Birgitta Andersdotter, Birgittine nun in Vadstena (Sweden) from 1491 to 1532, was closely connected to the ruling elite of her time, the Sture...
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Women Scribes in Early Medieval England, c. 650–1200
Although early medieval English manuscripts that explicitly identify their scribe(s) are scarce, secondary evidence, such as letters mentioning...
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Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen
By portraying women as saints and local patrons, the work of Osbern Bokenham (1393–post-1471) elucidates multiple aspects of women’s roles in late...
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ʿUlayya bint al-Mahdi
Princess ʿUlayya bint al-Mahdi (777–825) is one of the most famous female medieval poets in Arabic and one of the few freeborn female poets from the...
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Hugeburc of Heidenheim, Lives of Wynnebald and Willibald
Hugeburc of Heidenheim (fl.761–780), also known as Hygeburg, was an English hagiographer and a member of the Benedictine community at the double...
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Hadewijch
Hadewijch (active c. 1240) was a mystic and author of a literary oeuvre encompassing letters and visions in prose, song lyrics, and epistolary poems....
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Alice of Worcester
Alice of Worcester was a converted Jewess in late thirteenth-century England, who used letters and petitions to seek support from her connections in...
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The Anonymous Nun of Barking
The Nun lived at Barking Abbey during the late twelfth century. Benedictine nuns were highly educated; many were from the aristocracy. The Abbey’s...
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Shangguan Wan’er
Shangguan Wan’er was an important politician and writer of the Tang dynasty (618–907). In the history of imperial China, she is an extremely unique...
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L’Evangile des quenouilles
The Évangiles des Quenouilles is a collection of fifteenth-century folk beliefs compiled by an unidentified male author, and presented within a...
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Agnes of Harcourt
Agnes of Harcourt (c. 1240–c. 1291) was third abbess of Longchamp, the female Franciscan monastery founded west of Paris by Isabelle of France in...
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Daibu / Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu
Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu is the author of a personal waka collection, Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu shū. The work consists of 361 waka poems and prose...
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Einleitung
Bei kaum einem anderen Forschungsgegenstand der Germanistischen Mediävistik haben sich Betrachtungsweise und Auseinandersetzung in den letzten...
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Erzählen von (weiblicher) Vollendung: Erzählmodelle in der Margaretenlegende
Margareta von Antiochien ist eine der wichtigsten und populärsten weiblichen Heiligen des Mittelalters.356 Zusammen mit Barbara und Katharina bildet...