2 Why Siegfried Has to Die: Gender, Violence, and the Social Order in the Nibelungenlied

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Peddling Devotion: Mothers and Daughters in Conversation Through Books 25
8. 2 Why Siegfried Has to Die: Gender, Violence, and the Social Order in the Nibelungenlied 47
9. 3 “If You Are Desired, Then You Are Worthy”: Mothers, Daughters, and Paradoxes of Femininity in the Middle High German Tristan Sequels 77
10. 4 Maternal Bonds in Konrad Fleck’s Flôre und Blanscheflûr 103
11. 5 Teaching a Daughter Sexual Desire and Love Lore: Herzeloyde’s Mentorship of Sigune in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Titurel and Albrecht von Scharfenberg’s Jüngerer Titurel 117
12. 6 Mothers and Daughters Revisited: The Mother-Daughter Songs in the Context of the Later Neidhart Tradition 137
13. 7 Rivalrous Masculinities: Competing Concepts of Knighthood in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermon In Praise of the New Knighthood and Hartmann von Aue’s Novella Gregorius 161
14. 8 A Fate Worse than Death? Virgil’s “steinîn wîp” in Jans der Enikel’s Weltchronik 177
15. 9 Love and Disgust: Ambiguous Genres and Ambivalent Feelings in Herzmäre 199
16. Index 219