„An indispensable basic work, even for future generations of scholars. A treasure trove not only for literary scholars, but also for Lied researchers, theologians, historians, motif researchers, cultural studies scholars, folklorists, etc. The work also provides a paradigm for reference works, which in particular can be used to explore the exuberant literary tradition of the Early Modern Age.” Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota The »Repertorium« provides an inventory of about 17,500 mostly unpublished texts of a poetic and musical tradition which was vivid from the end of the 12th to the end of the 18th century. The description of manuscripts and early prints and of forms and contents of the texts are made accesible by several indexes.

„An indispensable basic work, even for future generations of scholars. A treasure trove not only for literary scholars, but also for Lied researchers, theologians, historians, motif researchers, cultural studies scholars, folklorists, etc. The work also provides a paradigm for reference works, which in particular can be used to explore the exuberant literary tradition of the Early Modern Age.” Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota The »Repertorium« provides an inventory of about 17,500 mostly unpublished texts of a poetic and musical tradition which was vivid from the end of the 12th to the end of the 18th century. The description of manuscripts and early prints and of forms and contents of the texts are made accesible by several indexes.

The complete edition is not only intended to present new editions of the Hessian Passion Plays and thus replace the obsolete versions, but it also provides for each lead text the parallels from the texts of the other plays in this group. In the three volumes, the individual transmission branches are not only re-edited on the basis of the mss. using standardised editorial principles, but their historical textual context is documented using parallel material. Commentaries are published for each of the three volumes.

„An indispensable basic work, even for future generations of scholars. A treasure trove not only for literary scholars, but also for Lied researchers, theologians, historians, motif researchers, cultural studies scholars, folklorists, etc. The work also provides a paradigm for reference works, which in particular can be used to explore the exuberant literary tradition of the Early Modern Age.” Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota The »Repertorium« provides an inventory of about 17,500 mostly unpublished texts of a poetic and musical tradition which was vivid from the end of the 12th to the end of the 18th century. The description of manuscripts and early prints and of forms and contents of the texts are made accesible by several indexes.

„An indispensable basic work, even for future generations of scholars. A treasure trove not only for literary scholars, but also for Lied researchers, theologians, historians, motif researchers, cultural studies scholars, folklorists, etc. The work also provides a paradigm for reference works, which in particular can be used to explore the exuberant literary tradition of the Early Modern Age.” Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota The »Repertorium« provides an inventory of about 17,500 mostly unpublished texts of a poetic and musical tradition which was vivid from the end of the 12th to the end of the 18th century. The description of manuscripts and early prints and of forms and contents of the texts are made accesible by several indexes.

The complete edition is not only intended to present new editions of the Hessian Passion Plays and thus replace the obsolete versions, but it also provides for each lead text the parallels from the texts of the other plays in this group. In the three volumes, the individual transmission branches are not only re-edited on the basis of the mss. using standardised editorial principles, but their historical textual context is documented using parallel material. Commentaries are published for each of the three volumes.

The South Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1377-1445) is the most notable German lyricist of the late Middle Ages. The present volume contains 25 articles in total, which have been compiled from the presentations at a great conference held by the Oswald von Wolkenstein society in Brixen in 2012. The authors are a mixture of renouned and younger Germanists and musicologists. The papers reveal diverse perspectives from which researchers are investigating the songs of Oswald today. The volume represents the current state of Oswald von Wolkenstein research.

Die im bayerisch-österreichischen Sprachraum entstandene »Weltchronik« Heinrichs von München ist eines der ehrgeizigsten volkssprachigen Buchprojekte des 14. Jahrhunderts: Eine gewaltige Summe des Geschichts- und Bibelwissens mit dem Ziel, die Weltgeschichte von der Schöpfung bis in die Zeit Karls des Großen, in späteren Fassungen auch bis zur damaligen Gegenwart möglichst ausführlich und vollständig in Versen darzustellen. Versuche, das ursprünglich heils- und profangeschichtliche Wissen als Ganzes darzustellen, gab es bereits früher; gelungen ist dies erstmals Heinrich von München. Für die Realisierung wurde eine Vielzahl von Quellen verarbeitet. Gleich nach ihrer Entstehung wurde die »Weltchronik« indes wiederholt überarbeitet: Es wurde gekürzt und erweitert, ersetzt und korrigiert. Das Ergebnis sind verschiedene, teilweise erheblich voneinander abweichende Fassungen. Das vorliegende fünfbändige Werk klärt die Zusammenhänge zwischen den unterschiedlichen Fassungen, in denen die »Weltchronik« überliefert ist. Der erste Band des Werkes enthält eine Darstellung der Zusammenhänge zwischen den verschiedenen mittelalterlichen Weltchroniken, Handschriftenbeschreibungen, einen Forschungsbericht, sowie Untersuchungen einzelner Teile mit Textabdrucken. Die Bände 2 und 3 stellen die Textgeschichte der Weltchronik Heinrichs von München im Detail dar und liefern weitere, sehr ausführliche Textabdrucke aus der bis jetzt als Ganzes unedierten Chronik.

Wizlav (the boy), who was probably identical with Prince Wizlav III of Rügen († 1325), was not only a creator of original texts, but also a gifted melodist. Among the authors of Middle High German songs, he occupies a special position, since all the melodies not only to his songs but also to his minnesongs have been preserved in the Jena Song Manuscript (c. 1340/50); the minnesong melodies have otherwise been almost completely lost. The new edition takes the place of older attempts at editions. It offers not only the texts and melodies, but also translations into New High German as well as a detailed commentary on the stanzaic forms, the melodies, the text types and the sometimes difficult language of the author, plus a facsimile of the source.