Annegret Oehme, Ph.D. (2016), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. She has published articles on pre-modern German and Yiddish literature in The German Quarterly, Ashkenaz, Daphnis, and Arthuriana, and a short monograph (“He Should Have Listened to His Wife.” The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations [De Gruyter, 2020]).

"The strength of the book lies in its application of newer directions in narratology across the centuries. In this regard it is a welcome contribution to the fields of German and Yiddish literature, medieval studies, and transmedial theory." - Adam Oberlin, Princeton University, in: The Medieval Review, 23.10.19

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Adapting Wigalois2 The Return of Wigalois: Disentangling a Shared Tradition3 A Tradition Revisited: Contemporary Research4 The Knight without Boundaries: Reconnecting the Disentangled1 From Arthurian Romance to Fairy Tale: Concepts of Adaptation in Ammenmährchen and Beyond1 Retelling, Transforming, and Transferring Medieval Literature2 Ammenmährchen as Adaptation3 Storytelling within the Wigalois/Viduvilt Tradition4 Conclusion2 Wigalois: The Heterogeneous Hero and His Narrative World1 God and Fortuna’s Chosen One2 Between Heathendom and Sorcery3 Intertextual Hero(in)es4 Conclusion3 Viduvilt: The Arthurian Knight Who Speaks Yiddish1 Viduvilt’s Origins, Humor, and Alterations2 Viduvilt as a “Jewish Text”3 May God Send the Messiah: Religion and Religious Forces in Viduvilt4 Knighthood and the Jewish Imagination5 Knighthood in a Nutshell: The Sketch in Cod. Hebr. 2556 Arthurian and Anti-Arthurian Adaptations7 Conclusion4 Language Matters: Crossing Linguistic and Ethnocultural Borders in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Textbook1 Wagenseil’s Textbook: Mission, Audience, and Language Philosophy2 Wagenseil’s Artis hof Adaptation as Transcultural Narrative3 Wagenseil’s Artis hof as Translational Union4 Adaptation and Power5 Conclusion5 An Arthurian Knight on the Chinese Imperial Throne: Navigating Divine Providence and Cosmopolitan Identity in Gabein (1788/1789)1 Is That Yiddish?! Text and Edition of Gabein2 Nowhere in Camelot: Abandoning the Arthurian Realm3 Eastwards: Familiarity and Otherness in the Depiction of China4 The Pious Hero5 Gabein’s Prayers and Christian Theology6 The Chinese Rites Controversy7 A Jewish Cosmopolite?8 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Annegret Oehme, Ph.D. (2016), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. She has published articles on pre-modern German and Yiddish literature in The German Quarterly, Ashkenaz, Daphnis, and Arthuriana, and a short monograph (“He Should Have Listened to His Wife.” The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations [De Gruyter, 2020]).

"The strength of the book lies in its application of newer directions in narratology across the centuries. In this regard it is a welcome contribution to the fields of German and Yiddish literature, medieval studies, and transmedial theory." - Adam Oberlin, Princeton University, in: The Medieval Review, 23.10.19

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Adapting Wigalois2 The Return of Wigalois: Disentangling a Shared Tradition3 A Tradition Revisited: Contemporary Research4 The Knight without Boundaries: Reconnecting the Disentangled1 From Arthurian Romance to Fairy Tale: Concepts of Adaptation in Ammenmährchen and Beyond1 Retelling, Transforming, and Transferring Medieval Literature2 Ammenmährchen as Adaptation3 Storytelling within the Wigalois/Viduvilt Tradition4 Conclusion2 Wigalois: The Heterogeneous Hero and His Narrative World1 God and Fortuna’s Chosen One2 Between Heathendom and Sorcery3 Intertextual Hero(in)es4 Conclusion3 Viduvilt: The Arthurian Knight Who Speaks Yiddish1 Viduvilt’s Origins, Humor, and Alterations2 Viduvilt as a “Jewish Text”3 May God Send the Messiah: Religion and Religious Forces in Viduvilt4 Knighthood and the Jewish Imagination5 Knighthood in a Nutshell: The Sketch in Cod. Hebr. 2556 Arthurian and Anti-Arthurian Adaptations7 Conclusion4 Language Matters: Crossing Linguistic and Ethnocultural Borders in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Textbook1 Wagenseil’s Textbook: Mission, Audience, and Language Philosophy2 Wagenseil’s Artis hof Adaptation as Transcultural Narrative3 Wagenseil’s Artis hof as Translational Union4 Adaptation and Power5 Conclusion5 An Arthurian Knight on the Chinese Imperial Throne: Navigating Divine Providence and Cosmopolitan Identity in Gabein (1788/1789)1 Is That Yiddish?! Text and Edition of Gabein2 Nowhere in Camelot: Abandoning the Arthurian Realm3 Eastwards: Familiarity and Otherness in the Depiction of China4 The Pious Hero5 Gabein’s Prayers and Christian Theology6 The Chinese Rites Controversy7 A Jewish Cosmopolite?8 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Annegret Oehme, Ph.D. (2016), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. She has published articles on pre-modern German and Yiddish literature in The German Quarterly, Ashkenaz, Daphnis, and Arthuriana, and a short monograph (“He Should Have Listened to His Wife.” The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations [De Gruyter, 2020]).

"The strength of the book lies in its application of newer directions in narratology across the centuries. In this regard it is a welcome contribution to the fields of German and Yiddish literature, medieval studies, and transmedial theory." - Adam Oberlin, Princeton University, in: The Medieval Review, 23.10.19

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Adapting Wigalois2 The Return of Wigalois: Disentangling a Shared Tradition3 A Tradition Revisited: Contemporary Research4 The Knight without Boundaries: Reconnecting the Disentangled1 From Arthurian Romance to Fairy Tale: Concepts of Adaptation in Ammenmährchen and Beyond1 Retelling, Transforming, and Transferring Medieval Literature2 Ammenmährchen as Adaptation3 Storytelling within the Wigalois/Viduvilt Tradition4 Conclusion2 Wigalois: The Heterogeneous Hero and His Narrative World1 God and Fortuna’s Chosen One2 Between Heathendom and Sorcery3 Intertextual Hero(in)es4 Conclusion3 Viduvilt: The Arthurian Knight Who Speaks Yiddish1 Viduvilt’s Origins, Humor, and Alterations2 Viduvilt as a “Jewish Text”3 May God Send the Messiah: Religion and Religious Forces in Viduvilt4 Knighthood and the Jewish Imagination5 Knighthood in a Nutshell: The Sketch in Cod. Hebr. 2556 Arthurian and Anti-Arthurian Adaptations7 Conclusion4 Language Matters: Crossing Linguistic and Ethnocultural Borders in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Textbook1 Wagenseil’s Textbook: Mission, Audience, and Language Philosophy2 Wagenseil’s Artis hof Adaptation as Transcultural Narrative3 Wagenseil’s Artis hof as Translational Union4 Adaptation and Power5 Conclusion5 An Arthurian Knight on the Chinese Imperial Throne: Navigating Divine Providence and Cosmopolitan Identity in Gabein (1788/1789)1 Is That Yiddish?! Text and Edition of Gabein2 Nowhere in Camelot: Abandoning the Arthurian Realm3 Eastwards: Familiarity and Otherness in the Depiction of China4 The Pious Hero5 Gabein’s Prayers and Christian Theology6 The Chinese Rites Controversy7 A Jewish Cosmopolite?8 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex