The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture) is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena.

The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture) is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena.

The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture) is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena.

This Festschrift, published on the occasion of Hans-Joachim Behr’s 65th birthday, offers a wide range of contributions by renowned scholars of medieval studies as well as specialists on the reception of medieval literature in the Early Modern and Modern Period. Following the research interests of the jubilee, the articles discuss religious and political poetry (Dieter Merzbacher, Johannes Rettelbach, Václav Bok, Winfried Frey and Claus-Artur Scheier), lyric poetry (Christoph Huber, Horst Brunner and Wolfgang Beutin), texts and topics of the Early Modern Period (Jan-Dirk Müller, Gerhild Scholz-Williams) as well as questions concerned with historical linguistics, media studies, and medievalism (Claudia Märtl, Pamela Männel, Wiebke Ohlendorf, Vera Heinrich, Charlotte Pappendorf and Alexander Schwarz as well as Ingrid Bennewitz) from an interdisciplinary point of view.

Die Bildung regionaler Identität im norddeutschen Kulturraum im Mittelalter