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...
These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ec...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
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...
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...
This master's thesis examines formulaic language patterns in Middle High German legal texts ('charte...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Germanic Studies. Advisor: Professor An...
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chroni...
For years, scholars of medieval German have grappled with how to analyze formal characteristics of t...
Middle High German (MHG) epic poetry presents a unique solution to the linguistic changes underpinni...
Anhand ausgewählter vor allem deutschsprachiger historiographischer Texte des Hoch- und Spätmittelal...
The lay of Hildebrand was handed down to us at two different points in time: the first one during th...
The ‘Kaiserchronik’, whose first recension was compiled around the middle of the twelfth century, is...
These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ec...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
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...
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...
This master's thesis examines formulaic language patterns in Middle High German legal texts ('charte...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Germanic Studies. Advisor: Professor An...
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chroni...
For years, scholars of medieval German have grappled with how to analyze formal characteristics of t...
Middle High German (MHG) epic poetry presents a unique solution to the linguistic changes underpinni...
Anhand ausgewählter vor allem deutschsprachiger historiographischer Texte des Hoch- und Spätmittelal...
The lay of Hildebrand was handed down to us at two different points in time: the first one during th...
The ‘Kaiserchronik’, whose first recension was compiled around the middle of the twelfth century, is...
These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ec...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...
Serious concern with the oral tradition as it existed before and side by side with Middle High Germa...