作者: Cyril Edwards

New edition, with facing English translation, of one of the most important Arthurian works from the middle ages. Erec is the earliest extant German Arthurian romance, freely adapted and translat …

‘In ancient tales many marvels are told us … now you may hear such marvels told!’The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping …

‘In ancient tales many marvels are told us … now you may hear such marvels told!’ The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping …

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Wolfram’s Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner’s Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka’s The Castle, Terry Gilliam’s film The Fisher King, and Umberto …

First English translation of Iwein[B], a German adaptation of Chrétien’s famous Yvain. Iwein, or The Knight with the Lion, is a free Middle High German adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ Old Fre …

Wolfram’s Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner’s Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka’s The Castle, Terry Gilliam’s film The Fisher King, and Umberto …

German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European ‘home’ culture. Islam has been a rich topic in German-language literature since the mid …