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Reading the Medieval Book.


Reading The Medieval Book

Kathryn Starkey

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Also available in a hardcover edition (0268041083, $50.00), Reading The Medieval Book: Word, Image, And Performance In Wolfram wolfram: see tungsten.  Von Eschenbach's Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey (Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages Germanic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. , University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), examines one of the most important epic poems in 13th Century Germany and its redaction See redact.  in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Professor Starkey's meticulous research reveals that the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript (c. 1270) of Woflram von Eschen-bach's Willehalm (c.1215) was compiled with both oral performance and the written medium in mind. A seminal work of flawless scholarship, Reading The Medieval Book would serve as an ideal template for the study of other medieval poetry, and is particularly commended to students of Medieval era art history, culture, and literature.
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