Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University publishes the Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions series for TEAMS: Teaching Association for Medieval Studies.

Series Introduction

The Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions series is designed for classroom use in German and medieval studies, as well as for the more advanced scholars in fields adjacent to that of German literature: the historian, Latinist, theologian or romanist who wishes to extend her or his reading and research across those largely artificial borders that still divide medievalists unnecessarily.

  • Editorial Board
    • CJ Jones, University of Notre Dame, Series Editor
    • Maria Dobozy, Emerita, University of Utah
    • Ann Marie Rasmussen, University of Waterloo
    • Markus Stock, University of Toronto
    • Olga Trokhimenko, UNC Wilmington
  • Submissions

    Proposals or completed manuscripts to be considered for publication by Medieval Institute Publications should be sent to Tyler Cloherty, acquisitions editor for the series, and the series editor, CJ Jones, University of Notre Dame.

All Books in This Series

  • Neidhart: Selected Songs from the Riedegg Manuscript

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    Neidhart: Selected Songs from the Riedegg Manuscript

    Introduction, translation, and commentary by Kathryn Starkey and Edith Wenzel

    A translation of and commentary on selected songs attributed to the satirical Middle High German poet Neidhart from the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript.

    ISBN 978-1-58044-224-4 (paperback) © 2016

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  • Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany

    Cover image of Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Notes by Ann Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl

    Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany

    Introductions, translations and notes by Ann Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl

    This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.

    ISBN 978-1-58044-151-3 (paperback) © 2010

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  • Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest)

    Cover image of Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest) by Thomasin von Zirclaria, translated with introduction and notes by Marion Gibbs and Winder McConnell

    Der Welsche Gast (The Italian Guest)

    Thomasin von Zirclaria
    Translated with introduction and notes by Marion Gibbs and Winder McConnell

    This work betrays the heavy hand of the clerical moralist who moves from providing the younger members of his audience with a primer for proper social etiquette in his early verses to a meticulous analysis of what he clearly viewed as the appropriate ethical code for the nobility of his time, often presented against the backdrop of thundering condemnations of the state of contemporary affairs.

    ISBN 978-1-58044-145-2 (paperback) © 2009

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  • History as Literature: German World Chronicles of the Thirteenth Century in Verse

    Cover image of History as Literature: German World Chronicles of the Thirteenth Century in Verse, with an introduction, translations, and notes by R. Graeme Dunphy

    History as Literature: German World Chronicles of the Thirteenth Century in Verse

    Introduction, translations and notes by R. Graeme Dunphy

    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.

    ISBN 1-58044-042-8 (paperback) © 2003

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  • Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When the Old Law Passed Away"

    Cover image of Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When the Old Law Passed Away," with an introduction, translations, and notes by James A. Rushing, Jr.

    Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When the Old Law Passed Away"

    Introduction, translations and notes by James A. Rushing, Jr.

    Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem—or poems—on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127.

    ISBN 1-58044-037-1 (paperback) © 2003

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  • Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050–1150

    Cover image of Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050–1150, with an introduction, translations, and notes by James A. Schultz

    Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050–1150

    Introduction, translations and notes by James A. Schultz

    These texts will be of interest because they represent a kind of writing – at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning, yet written in vernacular verse – that is not found elsewhere in the European Middle Ages. In addition, they may be of use in teaching since, although relatively short, they illustrate a great number of characteristic medieval ways of writing and can be linked to a number of quite remarkable historical figures.

    ISBN 1-58044-062-2 (paperback) © 2000

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