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

Mowatt, D. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521078881 ISBN 13: 9780521078887

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1971

Synopsis

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521078881
• ISBN 13: 9780521078887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218