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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Secondary Sources

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Publisher Series
Secondary Sources
Websites

Publisher Series

Bibliographies

Arthurian Legend and Literature: an annotated bibliography by Edmund Reiss; Louise H. Reiss; Beverly Taylor
Call Number: PN685 .R45 1984
A historical and bibliographical survey of the German religious drama by Maximilian J. Rudwin
Call Number: Z2234.D7 R9
Katalog der deutschsprachigen geistlichen Spiele und Marienklagen des Mittelalters by Rolf Bergmann
Call Number: Z5782.A2 B42 1986

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Secondary Sources

A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover (Editor)
Call Number: PQ1489.L213 C66 2003
Arthur of the Germans: the Arthurian legend in medieval German and Dutch literature by Silvia Ranawake (Editor); W. H. Jackson (Editor)
Call Number: PR328 .A39 2002
Aspects of Fifteenth-Century Society in the German Carnival Comedies by Edelgard E. DuBruck
Call Number: PT697.C3 D83 1993
Heroic Legends of the North: an introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich cycles by Edward R. Haymes; Susann T. Samples
Call Number: PT204 .H38 1996
Illuminating the Epic by Joan A. Holladay
Call Number: ND3399.W6 H65 1996

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Kreuzzugsdichtung des Mittelalters by Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzlaff-Eggebert
Call Number: PN1059.C9 W4

Studien zu ihrer geschichtlichen und dichterischen Wirklichkeit
Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority by Sara S. Poor
Call Number: BV5095.M43 P66
Medieval German Literature by Marion E. Gibbs; Sidney M. Johnson
Call Number: PT175 .G53 1997
Mittelhochdeutsche Romane und Heldenepen by Horst Brunner
Call Number: PT204 .M58 1993
Reading Medieval Book: word, image, and performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey
Call Number: PT1682.W8 S67 2004
The Medieval Dragon: the nature of the beast in Germanic literature by Joyce T. Lionarons
Call Number: PN831 .L56 1998
The Music of Early Minnesang by James McMahon
Call Number: ML183 .M44 1990

Websites

Middle High German dictionary
Grimm Deutsche Wörterbuch
Old high German dictionary
Hartmann von Aue Portal
Wolfram's Parzival project
Mediaevum
Internetportal für Studenten und Wissenschaftler der germanistischen und latinistischen Mediävistik.
Middle-High German Conceptual Database
The MHDBDB provides very powerful search functions for a large number of the most important works of Middle-high German literature, with linguistic and semantic search criteria. It also provides a Wordindex with Concepts for the lemmas and words in the database.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

German writers and works of the early Middle Ages, 800-1170 by Will Hasty (Editor); James Hardin (Editor)
Call Number: PT183 .G47 1995
German writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580 by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor); Richard Layman (Editor); C. Frazer Clark (Editor)
Call Number: PT241 .G47 1997
The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce (Editor)
Call Number: DA152.5.A7 B78 1999
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy (Editor); Geoffrey Ashe (Editor); Sandra N. Ihle (Editor); Marianne E. Kalinke (Editor); Raymond H. Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: DA152.5.A7 N48 1996
Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Verfasserlexikon by Wolfgang Stammler
Call Number: Z2230 .S78 1978
A Complete Concordance to Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival by Clifton Hall
Call Number: PT1693.Z5 H35 1990
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger (Editor)
Call Number: PN671 .C36 2000
A Handbook of the Troubadours by F. R. P. Akehurst; Judith M. Davis
Call Number: PC3304 .H36 1995
The Oxford companion to German literature [electronic resource] by Mary Garland