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 of medievalism in the Early Modern and Modern Period. Five articles in this collection focus on religious texts: Dieter Merzbacher’s essay on the relation between the Gospel of Henry the Lion and the German Gospel Harmony of Duke August the Younger, Johannes Rettelbach’s “Fünfmal Salve Regina,” Václav Bok’s analysis of the Bohemian reception of the St. Heinrich and St. Kunigunde cult, Winfried Frey’s discussion of the anti-Jewish tradition during the religious schism and Claus-Artur Scheier’s article about the “Epoche des Wunders” (Age of Miracles). Medieval lyric poetry is the subject of Christoph Huber’s essay “Zum didaktischen Potential des Minnelieds” in the works of Heinrich von Morungen, Reinmar and Konrad von Würzburg, Horst Brunner’s essay “Die Töne Neidharts,” and Wolfgang Beutin’s contribution concerning the reception of the Hussite Reformation in the works of Oswald von Wolkenstein and Muskatplüt. Jan-Dirk Müller (“Höfischer Sound und Intertextualität. Zu den Entlehnungen aus den ‘Klassikern’ im Friedrich von Schwaben”) and Gerhild Scholz-Williams (“[Körper]-geheimnisse und Cross-Dressing in Mélusine and the works of E. W. Happe”) analyze texts of the Early Modern Period. Questions of reception are at the heart of the articles by Claudia Märtel, who focuses on the reception of Piccolomini in the 19th century, and Wiebke Ohlendorf, who discusses the image of the medieval knight in contemporary film. Also concerned with issues of reception are two contributions about Till Eulenspiegel: Vera Heinrich, Charlotte Pappendorf and Alexander Schwarz reflect on exhibition practice in their essay “Eulenspiegel ausstellen als Mittelalter-Rezeption,” while Ingrid Bennewitz analyzes the reception history of Till Eulenspiegel in musicals for children and families. Pamela Männel’s “Germanistik als Kulturwissenschaft,” finally, constitutes an appeal for increased interdisciplinarity, especially in the field of historical linguistics, bearing testimony to the interdisciplinary nature of this entire publication which honors Hans-Joachim Behr as well as his oeuvre in linguistic and literary studies. weiterlesen