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This anthology of twenty medieval tales contains a representative selection of the various kinds of short narrative in verse that were transmitted together in German manuscript collections from the later thirteenth century onwards. They include religious miracle-tales, comic tales, moral-didactic tales, and courtly tales. Considered together, they offer an insight into how medieval poets tried to entertain as well as instruct their audiences i...

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This book investigates medieval concepts of authorship with reference to German narratives written between 1220 and 1290. It combines analyses of literary passages (accompanied by translations) and manuscripts (including illustrations) to shed new light on the ambivalent status of the figure of the author in the Middle Ages.

This book explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of short comic tales that flourished in late medieval Germany and that provided bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers.