This essay investigates the transitional character of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländische Reimchronik), a Middle High German verse history composed around 1290, which describes the conquest of the eastern Baltic lands by German crusaders and military-religious orders during the thirteenth century. Although it was first composed as a written text, the chronicle shows numerous features characteristic of oral-formulaic poetry: stock epithets, fixed nominal pairs, repeated discourse markers, and syntactic formulas used to introduce persons and places. The analysis is followed by an investigation of the probable audience and performance situation of the work. It is argued that the highly formulaic features of the work were design...
This master's thesis examines formulaic language patterns in Middle High German legal texts ('charte...
Apart from a few exceptions, abridged versions of courtly epics have not yet been of great interest ...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
This essay investigates the transitional character of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländ...
This paper investigates formulaic syntax in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländische Reim...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
Introduction. The article considers the structure and variety of fixed collocations in the “Livonian...
The formula used in medieval epic poetry is a structure in flux. Developments in the spoken language...
These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ec...
The Middle English verse romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have frequently been re...
For years, scholars of medieval German have grappled with how to analyze formal characteristics of t...
This article analyses rubrics in Middle High German miscellany manuscripts of short texts in rhyming...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Germanic Studies. Advisor: Professor An...
Some of the earliest texts in the medieval vernacular languages are transmitted as unique and often ...
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chroni...
This master's thesis examines formulaic language patterns in Middle High German legal texts ('charte...
Apart from a few exceptions, abridged versions of courtly epics have not yet been of great interest ...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
This essay investigates the transitional character of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländ...
This paper investigates formulaic syntax in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländische Reim...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
Introduction. The article considers the structure and variety of fixed collocations in the “Livonian...
The formula used in medieval epic poetry is a structure in flux. Developments in the spoken language...
These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ec...
The Middle English verse romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have frequently been re...
For years, scholars of medieval German have grappled with how to analyze formal characteristics of t...
This article analyses rubrics in Middle High German miscellany manuscripts of short texts in rhyming...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Germanic Studies. Advisor: Professor An...
Some of the earliest texts in the medieval vernacular languages are transmitted as unique and often ...
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chroni...
This master's thesis examines formulaic language patterns in Middle High German legal texts ('charte...
Apart from a few exceptions, abridged versions of courtly epics have not yet been of great interest ...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...