German Courtly Narrative and Lyric: Rethinking Sources and Influences

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)

Organizer Name

Evelyn Meyer; Joseph M. Sullivan; Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Organizer Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.; Univ. of Oklahoma; Appalachian State Univ.

Presider Name

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Paper Title 1

Unequal Equality: Erec as Head of His Wife in Hartmann von Aue's Erec

Presenter 1 Name

Jonathan Seelye Martin

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Illinois State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Of Sentinels and Neutral Angels: On the Connection between the Jewish "Book of Watchers" and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Grail Mythology

Presenter 2 Name

Matthias Daeumer

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. Wien

Paper Title 3

What Happened at the Sumer von Triere? Friedrich von Hausen and His Crux

Presenter 3 Name

Susanne Hafner

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Paper Title 4

Respondent

Presenter 4 Name

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Start Date

12-5-2019 8:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2020

Description

Each of the presenters is challenging long-held scholarly perception regarding sources and influences on the authors in the authors and texts they discuss, be that on the theme of marriage influenced by Hugh of St. Victor, the influence of Jenseitsreisen /Book of Enoch on Wolfram's Grail mythology, or the historical context on Friedrich von Hausen's minnelied "min herze und min life diu wellent scheiden" not being the third crusade but triggered by the memory of the first crusade that the previous generation had lived through. Evelyn Meyer