Claudia Bornholdt Books

This author delves into medieval literature, with a primary focus on early vernacular writing. Her scholarship traces the movement of motifs, patterns, and genres across linguistic and cultural boundaries during the High Middle Ages. She employs an interdisciplinary approach to examine how physical texts traversed different traditions. Her work highlights the interconnectedness of medieval European cultures through literary exchange.

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The Origins of Medieval Bridal-Quest Narrative
237 pages
9 hours of reading
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This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author locates the origin of this narrative tradition in the oral and written Germanic literary tradition, a result that leads to a re-assessment of the genesis of vernacular German and Scandinavian literature. The chapters deal in chronological order with the Latin chronicles of the Germanic peoples and with the early Latin and vernacular literature in Germany and Scandinavia.
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Studies the bridal quest epics (minstrel epics or Spielmannsepen), particularly Der Mèunchner Oswald and Orendel and the twelfth century Latin and German legends of the Saints Henry, Cunegond, and Alexius, all of the heroes of which live pious lives, chastely married.

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