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The end-times in medieval German literature : sin, evil, and the Apocalypse /
"The contemporary fascination with the end of the world and of life as we know it would not have surprised our counterparts a millennium ago; only the fact that such an end has not yet occurred. Current visions of the apocalypse encompass climate change, terrorism, antibiotic-resistant bacteria...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester :
Camden House,
2019.
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| Colección: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Thius wirsa giburd: Cain's legacy, original sin, and the end of the world in the Old Saxon Genesis / Alexander Sager
- The Heliand revisited: spiritual transgendering and the defiance of evil / Ernst Ralf Hintz
- The beginning of the end: binary dynamics and initiative in Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius / Will Hasty
- Poetic reflections in medieval German literature on tragic conflicts, massive death, and Armageddon / Albrecht Classen
- Beyond good and evil: apocalyptic vision without judgment in the Nibelungenlied: an essay / Winder McConnell
- End-times in the hall: the modern reception of the apocalyptic ending of the Nibelungenlied / Scott E. Pincikowski
- Past present, future present?: visualizing Arthurian romance and the beholder's share in a world that refuses to end / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
- Ich diene und wirbe/biz ich gar verdirbe: lovesickness, apocalypse, and the end-times in Mauritius von Craûn ande Das Nibelungenlied / Marian E. Polhill
- The slippery concept of evil in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein / Evelyn Meyer
- Wigamur's lessons on the complexity of evil / Joseph M. Sullivan
- The miracles of the Antichrist / Tina Boyer
- Monsters and monstrosities in the pamphlet wars of the Reformation / Winfried Frey.