History As Literature - German World Chronicles Of The Thirteenth Century In Verse - Excerpts From : Rudolf Von Ems, Weltchronik, The Chrisherre Chronik, Jans Enikel, Weltchronik

Ems, Rudolf von & Enikel, Jans - Dunphy, R Graeme [ editor & translator ]

ISBN 10: 1580440428 / ISBN 13: 9781580440424

Edité par Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 2003

A propos de cet article

Paperback, F. [vi]+186pp, 4 b/w illustrations, a fine copy. Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions volume III. A parallel German - English translation of extracts from three German Chronicles. Von Ems' is a history of the World from Creation to the death of King Solomon, Enikel's a history of the World from Creation to his own times ( often with humorous asides ) and the Chrisherre Chronik an anonymous chronicle which draws upon many sources including both Ems and Enikel's. 350 grams.

N° de réf. du vendeur 55289

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: History As Literature - German World Chronicles Of The Thirteenth Century In Verse - Excerpts From : Rudolf Von Ems, Weltchronik, The Chrisherre Chronik, Jans Enikel, Weltchronik
• Éditeur: Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1580440428
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781580440424
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1st edition.
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 350 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Medieval Literature
  • German Literature

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Synopsis

This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf's chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers' arrangement of material in a continuum from the beginning to the end of history.

À propos de l?auteur

Born in Glasgow in 1961, Graeme Dunphy studied German at Stirling 1979-84 and Hebrew and Old Testament at St Andrews 1984-87. He recieved his doctorate in Medieval German Literature in 1998. Before entering university teaching, he worked for the Church of Scotland from 1987 until 1993. He then lectured in English and German at the University of Regensburg for twenty years, and at the same time taught with the Open University and the University of London (open access programme). Since September 2013 he has been Professor of Translation at the University of Applied Sciences of Wurzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.