Title: Neidhart : selected songs from the Riedegg Manuscript (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 1062) /
Authors: Neidhart, active 13th century,; Neidhart, active 13th century.; Neidhart, active 13th century.; Starkey, Kathryn; Wenzel, Edith,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Songs, German Texts.; Songs, German.
Abstract: "A translation and commentary on selected songs attributed to the satirical Middle High German poet Neidhart from the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript"--
Contents: The Neidhart songs and their manuscript transmission -- Manuscript R -- Textual criticism and Neidhart editions -- Who was Neidhart? -- Neidhart's subgenres, motifs, and poetic language -- Seasonal openings: summer and winter songs -- Peasants and Neidhart's rustic world -- Friderun, Engelmar, and the theft of the mirror -- Conversations between girlfriends -- Mother-daughter dialogues -- Dancing -- Neidhart reception in the literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Neidhart reception in images from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries -- Neidhart miniature in MS. C -- Regensburg, Germany: Glockengasse 14 -- Vienna, Austria: Tuchlauben 19 -- Zurich, Switzerland: Brunngasse 8 -- Notes on this edition, translation, and commentary -- Selected songs from the Riedegg Manuscript -- R1 Alas, summer time (Owe sumerzit) -- R3 How do i overcome both (Wie uberwinde ich beide) -- R4 Summer, I must renounce your bright appearance (Sumer, diner lihten ougenweide) --^