Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives from the European Middle Ages to the 21st century. Objects as eclectic as church buildings, panel paintings, etchings, pieces of narrative and dramatic literature, motion pictures and TV genres serve to illustrate how access to as well as the interpretation of ’stocks of knowledge‘ is determined by spatial orders and their oscillations.

Contrary to former studies the volume focusses on the opportunities of fictional world concepts in the Arthurian narrations of the European Middle Ages apart from the factitive dictate. It examines phenomena of narration that opened spaces of story-telling to French and German premodern literatures but are sealed to temporary educated literature.

This study provides a precise definition of the term ‘intrigue’, which has not been a defined term in the medieval studies so far. The analysis is based on a selection of Middle High German novels and epics from the 12th to the 14th century. In addition to their significance for the narrative structure, intrigues prove to be alterable, possible courses of actions for complex, multidimensional characters within the MGH literature. As an interface between drama, plot dynamics and development of characters, intrigues are interwoven with official and private power constellations and provide new impetus to the debate about fictionality in narrative stories of the Middle Ages.

Der Band betrachtet das Thema „Romzug“ seit dem 10. Jahrhundert. Dabei analysieren die Beiträge die Wirkung römisch-deutscher Machtausübung in Italien und die Vielgestaltigkeit der kaiserlichen Regionalpolitik. Ebenso werden politische und infrastrukturelle Dispositive der Romzugsorganisation beleuchtet.

The theme of the conference proceedings is the question, whether in the 14th century in one of the Catalan kingdoms there has been a first European ceremony or whether it is a hybrid of law book and rules of the court. Thus, the leges palatinae give an insight into the living conditions and the inner structures of the society at court, whereby the illustration of the rich text characterises the manuscript as an important European contemporary document.

Der vorliegende Tagungsband dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des 3. Trierer Bibliotheksworkshops vom 19./20. Juni 2009. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Fragen nach den historischen Veränderungen mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken und einzelner Kodizes im Laufe ihrer Geschichte. Einer statischen Sicht von Bibliotheken und Handschriften werden Phänomene ihrer Dynamisierung und strukturellen Mobilisierung durch Bestandsveränderung, Glossierung, Neuordnung und ähnlichem mehr entgegengehalten. Die Beiträge beziehen sich u. a. die Dombibliotheken von Hildesheim und Halberstadt, das Skriptorium von Kloster Arnstein, die hebräischen Fragmente der Stadtbibliothek Trier oder Ekkehard IV. als Benutzer der Klosterbibliothek von St. Gallen.

The present volume „Wissensraum Film“ („Film as Knowledge Space”) concentrates on two aspects: knowledge and spaces in film. Main focus lies on the relevance of a relational concept of space in analyzing filmic production of knowledge: How does film create spatial structures and thus specific formations of knowledge? The eleven articles describe and discuss on a theoretical level scientific, political, entertainment, and art film as well as documentaries with regard to their spatiality and epistemic effects. The films investigated are correlated with other types of media and non-filmic discourses.

The transposition of medieval manuscripts into the digital space gives rise to new questions and entails consequences that have to be cleared and solved. The present collection offers a selection of projects that have been presented at a conference in January 2013 in Trier. By compiling these different approaches with their special aims, questions and methods, an overview over the current situation concerning digitizing projects and succeeding consequences and developments should be given.