The Ambraser Heldenbuch – A Major Compilation of Middle High German Narrative Poetry for Posterity Habsburg, German, or Austrian?

Autor: Albrecht Classen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 67-88 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2241-7702
DOI: 10.30958/ajha.11-1-3
Popis: In light of many attempts by recent scholars to come to terms with national concepts of literature, it is amazing to notice that even medieval and late medieval German literature is suddenly functionalized to support ideological, political purposes, so it seems. One of the major cultural-historical objects commonly referred to as the first major indicator of Austrian cultural identity was the famous Ambraser Heldenbuch, written by Hans Ried in Innsbruck on behalf of Emperor Maximilian I. After a critical review of a variety of approaches to the history of ‘Austrian’ medieval literature, this study examines closely what we can learn from the Ambraser Heldenbuch with regard to such a national reading of ‘Austrian’ in literary-historical terms.
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