New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.

A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100. This second volume of the set not only presents a detail

This comprehensive survey examines Germanic literature from the eighth century to the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval

This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, an

Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the