Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry

Secular and Religious Songs
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84384-296-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Library of Medieval Women

A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.

Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen proves this to be a misconception, presenting here a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, translated for the first time. Many seem to have left their works anonymously, or hid their names using acrostics; in these and other cases, Classen has identified a considerable corpus of writing which now fills the gap previously supposed to exist in the history of medieval and early-modern German women's poetry.

Dr Albrecht Classen is University DistinguishedProfessor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona

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Weitere Mitwirkende

Classen, Albrecht

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Classen, Albrecht
ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies.

Dr Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona