Germanic Philology – Germanic Philology – Supplement 1

Historiography and Literature in the Germanic Middle Ages / Historiography and Literature in the Germanic Middle Ages

Editorial Board / Editorial Board

Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo) – Editor-in-chief / Editor-in-chief
Verio Santoro (University of Salerno) – President of AIFG / Chairman of AIFG
Marina Buzzoni (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – Councillor of AIFG / Councillor of AIFG
Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence) – Councillor of AIFG / Councillor of AIFG

Scientific Committee / Scientific Committee

Maria Adele Cipolla (University of Verona) – Coordinator / Coordinator
Marina Buzzoni (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Norbert Kössinger (Universität Marburg)
Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo)
Verio Santoro (University of Salerno)
Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence)

TABLE OF CONTENTS / CONTENTS


ADELE CIPOLLA
Germanic Philology and Historiography. A foreword (pp. vii-xvii)

ANNA CAPPELLOTTO
Sources and textual models for the Battle of Legnica (1241): the Hedwigslegende (pp. 1-30)

ANTONIO CARAVELLA
The propagandistic function of the courtly novel: the case of the Euphemiavisors (pp. 31-47)

MARIA ADELE CIPOLLA
Epic and historiography in miscellaneous codices: Troy and Alexander in the Basler Handschrift (pp. 49-76)

ELISA CUGLIANA
On the traces of realia in the ENHG Marco Polo (pp. 77-97)

FULVIO FERRARI
The Beautiful Dead: Heroes and Traitors Facing Death in the Rhyming Chronicles of Medieval Sweden (pp. 99-117)

CLAUDIA HÄNDL
The origin of the Saxons between history and legend (pp. 119-141)

NORBERT KÖSSINGER
Zwischen Poetologie und Überlieferung. Die Kaiserchronik und ihre Prologe (pp. 143-158).

LORENZO LOZZI GALLO
The Kaiserchronik and the loss of the Germanic tradition (pp. 159-174)

FRANCIS PACIA
Translatio Imperii and Teutonicus Carolus in the Speculum Regum of Goffredo da Viterbo (pp. 175-194)

CLAUDIA ROSENZWEIG
Rabbi Yehuda HeKhassid and the Apostate. A defense against the charge of ritual murder in ancient Yiddish fiction (pp. 195-214)

FRANCIS SANGRISO
Chance or necessity. The foundation of royal power in Norse historiography (pp. 215-232)

MAX SILLER
Germanische Heldensage und Historiographie: Neue Deutungen (pp. 233-252)

LETIZIA VEZZOSI
De Erkenwaldo: hagiographic narrative as an instrument of ideological propaganda and reinforcement of national identity (pp. 253-275)

INDEXES (pp. 277-306)

LIST OF AUTHORS / LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (pp. 307-309)

PREVIOUS VOLUMES / PREVIOUS VOLUMES (pp. 311-312)