This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona.
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Introduction - Theoretical Methodological and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water Literature Symbolism and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality Liquidity and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears Water in Fountains Wells and in the Mediterranean Chapter Nine - Water as Markers of Identity Space and Time in the Icelandic Saga Njal's Saga: Travel War and Water in the World of Old Norse Literature Chapter Ten - Water Creatures Wells the Other Life Hybridity and the Aquatic: The Myth of Melusine in the Verse Romance by Jean d'Arras Chapter Eleven - Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and other Problems with Water: Flooding Voyaging Sexual Violence and Refuge Epilogue
Introduction - Theoretical Methodological and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water Literature Symbolism and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality Liquidity and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears Water in Fountains Wells and in the Mediterranean Chapter Nine - Water as Markers of Identity Space and Time in the Icelandic Saga Njal's Saga: Travel War and Water in the World of Old Norse Literature Chapter Ten - Water Creatures Wells the Other Life Hybridity and the Aquatic: The Myth of Melusine in the Verse Romance by Jean d'Arras Chapter Eleven - Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and other Problems with Water: Flooding Voyaging Sexual Violence and Refuge Epilogue
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