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The Modena Archivolt. Gawain (Galvagin) rescues Guenevere (Winlogee) from Mardoc. Close-up of the Modena Gawain. Lancelot vs. Gawain. The Sword Bridge. Fathers and Sons. Hartmann von Aue (ca. 1170-1220) Erek (ca. 1190-95) in 4 manuscripts (1 complete, 3 fragments)
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Hartmann von Aue (ca. 1170-1220) Erek (ca. 1190-95) in 4 manuscripts (1 complete, 3 fragments) Iwein (ca. 1204) in 32 manuscripts Gottfried von Strassburg Tristan (ca. 1210) in 31 manuscripts (14 complete, 17 containing fragments) Major German Arthuriana
Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival (ca. 1200-1210) in 82 manuscripts (16 complete, 66 containing fragments) Titurel (ca. 1217-20) Major German Arthuriana, cont.
Gottfried on Wolfram “But if some friend of the hare, high-skipping and far-browsing, seeks out Poetry’s heath with dicing terms, and, lacking our general assent, aspires to the laurel wreath, let him leave us to adhere to our opinion that we too must have a hand in the choosing. . . . We shall not allow anyone to wear it [the laurel wreath] whose words are not well-laved, and his diction smooth and even; so that if someone approaches at the trot, well-poied and with an upright seat, he will not stumble there. Inventors of wild tales, hired hunters after stories, who cheat with chains and dupe dull minds, who turn rubbish into gold for children and from magic boxes pour pearls of dust! – these give us shade with a bare staff, not with the green leaves and twigs and boughs of May. Their shade never sooths a stranger’s eyes. To speak the truth, no pleasurable emotion comes from it, there is nothing in it to delight the heart. . . .”
Outclassed? • Wolfram von Eschenbach • Parzival (ca. 1200-1210) in 82 manuscripts (16 complete, 66 containing fragments) • Gottfried von Strassburg • Tristan (ca. 1210) in 31 manuscripts (14 complete, 17 containing fragments)
Arthurian Culture in Medieval Germany • Naming Practices Bernhardin von Stauff m. Catharina von Torring = Gramoflantz Ferafis Argula Secundilla
German Arthurian Culture, cont. • Round Tables • Grail Festivals • Arthur’s Courts (Artushöfe)
Role Playing Ulrich von Liechtenstein 1240 jousting tour Frauendienst 1494 Imperial Diet 1494 Imperial Diet of Worms Emperor Maximilian I German Arthurian Culture, cont.
Belcane Hertzeloyde Gahmuret