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Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois

March 8, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois Brown, James H. Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract In his only known romance, Wigalois, Wirnt von Gravenberg uses ekphrasis as a vehicle for articulating religious tolerance as well as differences between medieval Christians and Muslims, and offers an alternative image to what easily could have been an […]

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Bullish on Love and Adventure: Chivalry as Speculation in the German Arthurian Romances

March 8, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Bullish on Love and Adventure: Chivalry as Speculation in the German Arthurian Romances Hasty, Will Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract Adventure and love are speculative in the modern sense. In the romances of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach, they tend continually to be oriented towards a conclusion or closure that has not yet occurred, a […]