ABSTRACT
Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Early Middle High German Literature 1050–1170
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Saxon and Salian Dynasties (1046–1150)
chapter 1170|9 pages
Middle High German Literature under the Hohenstaufens 1170–1273
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
