This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water, Literature, Symbolism, and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality, Liquidity, and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears, Water in
Introduction - Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water, Literature, Symbolism, and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality, Liquidity, and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears, Water in
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