Neidhart: Selected Songs from the Riedegg Manuscript

Kathryn Starkey is Professor of German Studies at Stanford University. Her research interests include medieval German literature, history of the book, and visual culture. She is the author of A Courtier's Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's "Welscher Gast" (2013) and Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Willehalm" (2004).Edith Wenzel is Professor Emerita for Medieval German Language and Literature. Her fields of research include Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe, gender studies, medieval poetry, Neidhart, and Neithardiana. She is author of Do worden die Judden alle geschant – Rolle und Funktion der Juden in spätmittelalterlichen Spielen (1992) and Zur Textkritik und Überlieferungsgeschichte einiger Sommerlieder Neidharts (1973).

• IntroductionThe Neidhart Songs and Their Manuscript TransmissionManuscript RTextual Criticism and Neidhart EditionsWho was Neidhart?Neidhart's Subgenres, Motifs, and Poetic LanguageSeasonal Openings: Summer and Winter SongsPeasants and Neidhart's Rustic WorldFriderun, Engelmar, and the Theft of the MirrorConversations between GirlfriendsMother-Daughter DialoguesDancingNeidhart Reception in the Literature of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesNeidhart Reception in Images of the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth CenturiesNotes on this Edition, Translation, and CommentarySelected Songs from the Riedegg ManuscriptAppendix: Concordance