Archivos de Ciencia e Investigación(ADCI)

Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Omnipresence of Death in Late Medieval Poetry and Verse Narratives: Johannes von Tepl and Oswald von Wolkenstein. With and Outlook on Some Contemporary Artworks (“Der Schmerzensmann”)
  Author(s): Albrecht Classen*
  
  This paper intends to engage with a broad discourse on death that determined the late Middle Ages. Although the greatest epidemic, the Black Death, was not really reflected in contemporary German literature, we observe a clear shift away from the traditional courtly to the deadly worldview since the early fifteenth century. Two poets deserve particular attention who were contemporaries and, drawing from very different genres, offered powerful poetic reflections on death as it affected them drastically in very personal terms, whether this was seen through a rhetorical lens or through standard poetic images. AIM: Both Johannes von Tepl and Oswald von Wolkenstein have already been discussed from many different perspectives, but by combining their comments on death, we can grasp more concisely the extent to which the topic of death occupied the public discourse .. Read More»
  

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