Early versions in medieval textual traditions. Wolfram’s Parzival as a test case
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Date of Publication
December 2013
Publication Type
Book Section
Division/Institute
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Editor
Moers, Gerald | |
Widmaier, Kai | |
Giewekemeyer, Antonia | |
Lümers, Arndt | |
Ernst, Ralf |
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
0946-8641
Publisher
Widmaier Verlag
Language
English
Description
Wolfram von Eschenbach’s novel Parzival is a courtly romance composed in German language shortly after 1200. In a project, based at the University of Bern, a new critical edition of the poem is prepared in electronic and printed form. It visualizes parallel textual versions, which, depending on particular circumstances of oral performance, have developed in the early stage of the poem’s transmission. Philological research as well as phylogenetic techniques common in the natural sciences, e.g. in molecular biology, have been used to demonstrate the existence of these early textual versions. The article shows how both methods work and how they are applied to the ongoing edition. Exemplary passages to be presented include the text of some rare fragments written in the first decades of the 13th century, which might even go back to the author’s lifetime and which allow to date the existence of the versions they belong to.
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Goettingen10_SD_klein.pdf | text | Adobe PDF | 1.86 MB | publisher | published |