Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters
Die ‚Deutschen Texte des Mittelalters‘ wurden 1904 an der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gegründet, um die deutsche mittelalterliche Überlieferung möglichst vollständig zu erfassen und eine Reihe der Texte in Ausgaben nach dem Leithandschriftenprinzip zügig zugänglich zu machen. Das von Gustav Roethe, Erich Schmidt und Konrad Burdach begründete Projekt war ursprünglich zur Beschleunigung gegenüber umfangreichen kritischen Editionen gedacht; der Ansatz hat sich in rund einhundert Bänden als zukunftsträchtig erwiesen, da er Lesbarkeit und Handschriftennähe nützlich verbindet. Schwerpunkte lagen auf geistlicher Dichtung, auf der Literatur des Deutschen Ordens sowie auf der Epik des Spätmittelalters. In der Reihe, die bis heute an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften fortgesetzt wird, konnten umfangreiche Großtexte erscheinen wie der ‚Jüngere Titurel‘ oder das ‚Passional‘. Mit den Schriften des ‚Österreichischen Bibelübersetzers‘ erscheint derzeit ein Werk, das in der Laientheologie des 14. Jahrhunderts hervorragt.
Clara Hätzerlin’s Liederbuch (song book) is considered one of the most significant late medieval text collections of sacred and secular love poems. Alongside anonymous authors, it also includes well-known names like Konrad von Würzburg and Oswald von Wolkenstein. This edition offers new answers to text-critical questions, making it an essential reference volume for working with late medieval poetry.
The "discernment of spirits" develops criteria to evaluate the divine, diabolical, or natural origins of everyday emotional reactions but also of extraordinary experiences. It is particularly present in the context of late medieval movements to reform religious orders. This volume provides an edition of seven writings on discernment in the vernacular from the Melker Observance and includes an extensive commentary.
Written in the early 13th century, the Stricker’s Karl der Grosse (Charlemagne) revises and updates the older Song of Roland by the cleric Konrad. The author transforms Charlemagne’s Spanish campaign into the form of a courtly epic, creating a more stylistically sophisticated work. At the same time, the narrative shifts its focus to emphasize the holy emperor..
The volume provides the text of the Erfurt Popular Bible (an expanded bible translation with commentary) in a parallel presentation of two Erfurt manuscripts from the 1420s. The text reprint indicates the connections to the vulgate and other sources, and the introduction covers relevant biblical historical, codicological, and language historical issues, thereby presenting an important textual example of late Medieval bible history.
Publication of the Millstatt Sermons opens access to the last yet untapped collection of early German sermons (around 1200). This edition of 72 prototypical German language sermons includes the texts with a critical apparatus, references to Bible passages, a glossary and directories, notes on the transmission history, a study of the context in which they were written, and a typology of sermon forms.
Johannes Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445-1510), the best-known 15th century German preacher, delivered his sermons to an enthusiastic Augsburg audience in 1488. These sermons were preserved in the form of sermon transcripts, and have been handed down in five versions, four of which have been synoptically edited using the tradition-historical method; the fifth, later version is presented in a complete critical apparatus of variants.
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books I and II are now being published in an edition that documents the entire surviving literary record, the relationship to its sources, and the author's unique vocabulary.
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first great collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books I and II are now being published in an edition that includes extensive documentation of the entire literary tradition, the relationship to its sources, and the author's unique vocabulary.
Rothes Text wird hier erstmals auf der Grundlage der gesamten Überlieferung ediert. Im Parallelabdruck wird eine zweite Fassung geboten, sodass sich die Interessenverschiebungen gegenüber dem Text und die damit verbundenen Varianzen jeweils überschauen lassen.br>