Klaus Graf: Eine von Himmler angeregte antikirchliche Kampfschrift Arnold Ruges (1881-1945) über die Hexenprozesse (1936), in: Himmlers Hexenkartothek. Das Interesse des Nationalsozialismus an der Hexenverfolgung, hrsg. von Sönke Lorenz, Dieter R. Bauer, Wolfgang Behringer und Jürgen Michael Schmidt (= Hexenforschung 4), Bielefeld 1999, S. 35…[Read more]

Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

This selection of celestinesque and picaresque studies is the result of the joint work of new, experienced and established researchers from the American and European continents. It is a volume that proposes interdisciplinary and innovative perspectives that address both the defining works of the picaresque and celestinesque literatures and related…[Read more]

Analysis of the use of the Bible in “Celestina”.

The iconographic programmes of the illustrated editions of the translations of “Celestina” into Italian, German, French and Dutch printed in the first half of the sixteenth century are compared to those of the editions in Spanish that appeared before the Zaragoza: Pedro Bernuz y Bartolomé de Nájera, 1545 edition. They are considered within their c…[Read more]

Celestina is linked to Terenceʼs works since its origins: not only did contemporary readers identify it as a «terentian» work, but its earliest illustrated editions are indebted to the Strasbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1496 edition of Terence’s Comoediae. Going back to the manuscript models of the incunabula editions of Terence, in this artic…[Read more]

The article for the handbook “Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)” offers a brief outline of Leipzig’s function as a residential city in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

This article examines the eventful history of the bailiwick of the Benedictine monastery of Remse near Glauchau, founded in the middle of the 12th century. Close to the empire and under royal protection in the High Middle Ages, with the collapse of the Hohenstaufen kingship first the lords of Waldenburg and then, as their heirs, the lords of…[Read more]

The article deals with the relationship between Thilos von Trotha, Bishop of Merseburg (1466-1514) and the towns in his diocese in comparison to the diocese of Naumburg in the 15th and 16th centuries. First, the episcopal rule of the towns in the two high bishoprics is compared, especially the question of jurisdiction. Secondly, we ask how and in…[Read more]

The article deals with the observant Thuringian-Saxon reform congregation of Augustinian hermits around 1500, the order that Luther joined in Erfurt in 1505. The emergence and organization of the reform congregation is examined in a comparative perspective and embedded in the overarching, contemporary context of church and piety history. Finally,…[Read more]