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Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm is one of the most-discussed German poetic texts from the High Middle Ages. To date, researchers have been unable to agree how to read this text - as a plea for the ideology of the Crusades, for tolerance or even for humanity. The present study seeks new answers to these important questions by evaluating the text structures predestined to influence the medieval reader or listener in their experience and judgement - when and for whom does the text evoke their empathy, their compassion or even their sympathy?
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Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm zaauml;hlt zu den meistdiskutierten Dichtungen des deutschen Hochmittelalters. Die Forschung ist sich bis heute nicht einig, inwieweit dieser Text als Pladoyer fuuuml;r Kreuzzugsideologie, fur Toleranz oder gar fur Menschlichkeit zu lesen ist. Das vorliegende Werk sucht neue Antworten auf diese bedeutenden Fragen in der Auswertung von Textstrukturen, die pradestiniert sind, den mittelalterlichen Hoouml;rer/Leser in seinem Erleben und in seiner Urteilsbildung zu beeinflussen: Wann und fur wen weckt der Text seine Empathie, sein Mitleid oder gar seine Sympathie?
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The series QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witth ft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series.
As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other, Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative studies. The publications of the series include monographs, doctoral and professorial theses. Works presented for acceptance in the series are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in method and presentation.