Reading The Medieval Book
Subtitle: Word, Image, And Performance In Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm (Poetics of Orality and Literacy)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780268041090
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Continental European; European - German; Medieval; 12th cent; 12th cent.; Germany; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Language; Willehalm; Wolfram,; von Eschenbach,
First sentence: In a remarkable thirteenth-century illustrated manuscript fragment of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm, an artist depicts the poem's narrator standing and gesturing toward the characters of the story that he relates.