BEGINNINGS OF GERMAN LITERATURE by Edwards, Cyril ISBN 157113235X
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[edit] BEGINNINGS OF GERMAN LITERATURE
A study of the breakthrough of the Germanic vernacular dialects into the realm of written language between the eighth and tenth centuries.
For the German-speaking peoples under the Carolingians (c.AD750-950), the dominant literary tongue was Latin, the lingua franca of the Christian West, but during the period between the eighth and tenth centuries the dialects of Old High German in the south and Old Saxon in the north broke through into the realm of written languages. Cyril Edwards explores a number of instances in his book, which he begins with a look at the recording and survival of the earliest continuous German texts, before turning to the specific examples. These are: the Wessobrunn Prayer, the earliest religious poem in German; the Hildebrandslied, the only surviving Old High German heroic lay; the ninth-century eschatalogical poem, the Muspilli; the Merseburg Charms, pagan survivals in a Christian manuscript, summoning gods familiar from the Old Norse pantheon; the earliest traces of the love lyric; and finally, an ingenious forgery that was a cause celebre in the nineteenth century, the Old High German Lullaby. Dr CYRIL EDWARDS lectured in medieval German literature until 1994 and has published articles and edited two books on the topic.
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BEGINNINGS OF GERMAN LITERATURE
[edit] Author
Edwards, Cyril
[edit] ISBN
157113235X
[edit] Published
15/07/2002
[edit] Publisher
Camden House Inc., U.S.
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hardback
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50 (GBP)
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