Medieval things : agency, materiality, and narratives of objects in medieval German literature and beyond /

Medieval Things brings together a theoretically informed and politically engaged new materialist approach to famous and forgotten German narratives from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, including Wolfram of Eschenbach's Parzival and the epic Song of the Nibelungs, and sets them in their...

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Main Author:	Bildhauer, Bettina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:	Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:	German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Agent (Philosophy) in literature. Material culture in literature. Object (Philosophy) in literature.

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Summary:	Medieval Things brings together a theoretically informed and politically engaged new materialist approach to famous and forgotten German narratives from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, including Wolfram of Eschenbach's Parzival and the epic Song of the Nibelungs, and sets them in their global context.
Physical Description:	xiv, 223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates: illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
ISBN:	9780814214251 0814214258