This article edits and discusses a Latin love poem written by a previously unknown woman writer, Lady Elizabeth Dacre, in the 1550s.

Codex myths and fantasies of codex are closely related phenomena that are about the claim of old books as authorities.

I. High medieval source fictions
II The Renaissance – the age of forgeries?
III. Genealogical fakes
IV. Monastery Lorch, hoard of mysterious manuscripts

This Contribution to the history of nobility of the Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany) region presents the family histories of the following families:

– von Weinsberg
– von Rechberg
– Ruch (Schwäbisch Gmünd citizen)
– Bertnang (Schwäbisch Gmünd citizen)
– von Degenfeld
– Feierabend (Schwäbisch Gmünd citizen)
– Vetzer von Brogenhofen
– von Nen…[Read more]

Describes translation practice in relation to Old English Poetry.

Urban imaginations: “Erzähl-Male” (monuments generating narratives, iconic myths) and proverbs as media of remembrance. Contribution to the Regensburg Conference “Stadtgeschichte(n)” 2016. PREPRINT.

Alfred von Reumont published popular books on the legends of Aachen and the Rhine: Aachens Liederkranz und Sagenwelt (1829, new edition 1873: Aachener Liederchronik) and Rheinlands Sagen, Geschichten und Legenden (1837, English: Ruins of the Rhine. Their Times and Traditions). They are contextualized in the framework of German legend production…[Read more]