Johann von Neumarkt (ca. 1310-1380) created a corpus of German-language prayers that is reconstructed on the basis of the manuscript tradition. A stylistic study as well as detailed interpretations of the contents, taking into account the source material, outline the linguistic, theological and piety-historical profile of the corpus, which shaped the vernacular prayer book culture of the late Middle Ages in a special way, above all in the Upper, but also in the Central German language area.

Religious texts of various literary genres reveal the transforming expressions of piety from medieval times to the early modern period.