Conrad Kyeser was the first to present an image of a chastity belt in his illustrated book on war machinery,Bellifortis (1405), and some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poets and artists referred to
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, an
Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premode
By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflic
The conventional view is that a few exceptional female figures struggled hard to carve a small niche for themselves with the patriarchal world of Medieval Europe. Classen, who is not further identifie
Published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), this volume consists of an English translation of the verse narratives of late medieval German author Heinrich Kaufringer.
Classen (German studies, U. of Arizona) endeavors to "examine how violence and rape have been dealt with in the past, especially by medieval German and their contemporary European poets." He explains
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets
