2020: Special Issue 5: Text and texture. WeiterDichten und AndersErzählen in the Middle Ages
In the literature of the Middle Ages, references to a particularly long tradition are a sign of exceptional quality. This can be seen above all in meta-passages of Middle High German texts, which also contain differentiated information on the status of re-narrator and re-narration. While medieval poets exhibit their ›authorship of variance‹ in reflexive passages of prologues, digressions, commentaries or epilogues, textual variations attributable to editors, compilers, scribes, printers or binders are almost only visible in textual comparison. In this conference volume, medieval ›WeiterDichten‹ and ›AndersErzählen‹ are systematically summarised on the basis of selected examples with a view to the current state of research, in response to a still existing desideratum in medieval narrative research.
