Medievalists.net » Wolfram von Eschenbach 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 Characters and Narrators as Interpreters of Fidelity Tests in Medieval Arthurian Fiction http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/characters-and-narrators-as-interpreters-of-fidelity-tests-in-medieval-arthurian-fiction/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/characters-and-narrators-as-interpreters-of-fidelity-tests-in-medieval-arthurian-fiction/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:24:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24914 Characters and Narrators as Interpreters of Fidelity Tests in Medieval Arthurian Fiction Besamusca, Bart Neophilologus (2010) Abstract This article discusses a number of fidelity-testing tales and episodes, focusing on the function of characters and narrators who provide interpretations of the outcome of the tests. The testing of a series of characters takes place during a social […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/characters-and-narrators-as-interpreters-of-fidelity-tests-in-medieval-arthurian-fiction/feed/ 0 Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/26/bounds-of-imaginationgrail-questing-and-chivalric-colonizing-in-wolfram-von-eschenbach%e2%80%99s-parzival/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/26/bounds-of-imaginationgrail-questing-and-chivalric-colonizing-in-wolfram-von-eschenbach%e2%80%99s-parzival/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:35:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22132 Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Hasty, Will The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur,  ed. Norris J. Lacy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008) Abstract The Arthurian and Grail narratives of the High Middle Ages, particularly by means of their adventures and quests, occupied a new territory in the imagination of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/26/bounds-of-imaginationgrail-questing-and-chivalric-colonizing-in-wolfram-von-eschenbach%e2%80%99s-parzival/feed/ 0 Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/08/envisioning-salvation-an-ecumenical-ekphrasis-in-wirnt-von-gravenbergs-wigalois/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/08/envisioning-salvation-an-ecumenical-ekphrasis-in-wirnt-von-gravenbergs-wigalois/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:21:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18094 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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