Diachrone Narratologie und historische Erzählforschung. Eine Bestandsaufnahme und ein Plädoyer

Abstract

This contribution primarily approaches the field of medieval narrative research as distinct from the concept of narratology and from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using key examples from narratology, which is often teleologically oriented towards the modern age, it shows that medieval narrative research is – unjustly – relatively invisible, although medieval texts offer a particularly good opportunity to refine our understanding of narrative. Through a combination of transdisciplinary cooperation on the one hand and the application of philological core competences on the other, medieval narrative research can benefit narratology as a whole.