Medievalists.net » Der Stricker http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Cheating and Cheaters in German Romance and Epic, 1180 – 1225 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/31/cheating-and-cheaters-in-german-romance-and-epic-1180-1225/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/31/cheating-and-cheaters-in-german-romance-and-epic-1180-1225/#comments Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:18:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46211 An Alsatian poet named Heinrich, writing around 1180, composed a beast epic, based on French sources, about a trickster fox named Reinhart. Some sixty years later, a poet known to us only as Der Stricker composed a work of similar length and structure, about a trickster priest named Amis, and his diligent efforts to cheat various anonymous individuals out of their money.

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