Papers by Ann Marie Rasmussen
Stimme und Performanz in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, 2017
Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte Die Objekte, die in diesem Beitrag untersucht werden, scheinen d... more Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte Die Objekte, die in diesem Beitrag untersucht werden, scheinen die Kriterien für einen Beitrag zum Thema ‚Stimme und Performanz' nicht zu erfüllen. In diesen Ausführungen geht es überhaupt nicht um Literatur, sondern um kleine Gegenstände, die sogenannten Abzeichen, auf Latein signa, auf Französisch enseignes, auf Englisch badges. 1 Auf Deutsch werden diese Gegenstände Pilgerzeichen genannt, was insofern irrtümlich ist, weil etwa 40 % der überlieferten Abzeichen nichts mit Pilgern oder gar Religion zu tun haben. 2 Dementsprechend werden auch in diesem Beitrag sowohl religiöse als auch profane Abzeichen untersucht. Abzeichen sind, um mit Hartmut Kühne zu sprechen, kleine, "aus Blei-Zinn gegossene Metallplaketten, […] die Ösen oder später auch Anstecknadeln zur Befestigung an Hut oder Mantel besaßen", 3 mit einem im Mittelalter weit bekannten Symbol oder Bild versehen, die im Spätmittelalter massenangefertigt und millionenfach hergestellt wurden. Eigentlich handelt es sich um kleine Metallbilder oder Skulpturen. Es sind derzeit an die 20.000 Abzeichen bekannt. 4 Das macht nur einen Bruchteil der ursprünglichen Menge aus, stellt aber immerhin ein beachtliches und immer noch nicht er-|| 1 Vgl. Denis Bruna, Enseignes de plomb et autres menues chosettes du moyen âge, Paris 2006, S. 17. 2 Das Wort ‚Zeichen' hat im Deutschen zahlreiche Bedeutungsfelder, ganz besonders im kulturund literaturwissenschaftlichen Bereich. Um Missverständnisse zu vermeiden, werden in diesem Beitrag konsequent die badges Abzeichen genannt.
Arthurian Cosmopoiesis: Wolfram's Parzival
Arthuriana
Babies and Books: The Holy Kinship as a Way of Thinking About Women's Power in Late Medieval Northern Europe
Boydell & Brewer, Mar 1, 2016
This essay discusses the late medieval extended family of saints known as The Holy Kinship (Saint... more This essay discusses the late medieval extended family of saints known as The Holy Kinship (Saint Anne, her three daughters, and their offspring) as a way of thinking about the constructed and changing nature of family and kinship relations and about normative constructions of gender. Focussing also on the appearance of babies and books in many images of the Holy Kinship, it discusses the ideal of the learned woman in late medieval, Northern Europe, referencing a short text known as "The Twenty-One-Year-Old Woman."
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
German History, 2022
Introduction: Medieval Badges
The Mediaeval Journal, 2018
Produced in the high and lateMiddle Ages, badges are small, brooch-like objects with images, prod... more Produced in the high and lateMiddle Ages, badges are small, brooch-like objects with images, produced and worn for others to see, read, and interpret.The hypothesis tying together the articles in t...
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2000
of groups that medievalists don't reach. The potential-for connection is there, however, and many... more of groups that medievalists don't reach. The potential-for connection is there, however, and many people on an individual basis are making those connections and training students to make those connections as well. To return to Humpty Dumpty, it's important that we not follow his lead, and choose what we want feminism to mean, but that we engage in the collective endeavor of figuring out what it means, in order to be able to talk in a language that reaches across fields. Not only will it allow our scholarship to reach a broader audience, but in the spirit of self-interest, I submit that it will help on the job market as well.
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2003
Julian of Norwich is also briefly mentioned on p. 728. I could find no mention of Catherine of Ge... more Julian of Norwich is also briefly mentioned on p. 728. I could find no mention of Catherine of Genoa and the index was no help in this respect. The fourth and "missing" woman from this volume was Hildegard of Bingen. 3 For a consideration of the various debates surrounding women's status in fourteenth-century England,
Medieval Feminist Forum, 1999
When I became President of SMFS,I decided to read through back issues of MFn whose new name is Me... more When I became President of SMFS,I decided to read through back issues of MFn whose new name is Medieval Feminist Forum. One of the strengths of the contributions to MFN is how clearly they make visible the conditions under which we produce and transmit scholarship about the past. While reading I was struck by the academic diversity represented by the members of SMFS. We work in many different capacities within many different kinds of institutions. Most of us teach; many conduct research and publish; some work in libraries or are independent scholars; many of us are engaged in graduate study; most are employed, but in positions representing the entire range of professional positions in academia today, from adjuncts and visiting professors to tenured scholars. We are affiliated with a startlingly diverse array of institutions: community colleges, private research universities, liberal arts colleges, religiously affiliated colleges and universities, public research universities, public teaching universities large and small, and high schools as well.
Medieval Feminist Forum, 1999
In the course of doing research for a book one usually turns up more interesting material than ca... more In the course of doing research for a book one usually turns up more interesting material than can be used in the project at hand. This was certainly the case when I was working on my book, Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1997).Once I had decided that my book would not survey the primary material but rather provide what I hoped would be focused studies of a few, significant texts, lots of notes and photocopies went back to their manila folders and were refiled for possible future use. One such text is the anonymous 121-line conduct poem, "Eyne gude lere van einer junchvrowen" [Good Counsel for a Young Lady], in which a mother instructs her daughter in good behavior.' This poem did not make it into my book largely because it raised a great many interesting questions that were, alas, marginal to the way in which I had decided to frame the book. First, there was the unusualness of its language, Middle Low German, the language of northern Germany and the Hanseatic league. In the late Middle Ages Low German had achieved the status of a literary language, only to be slowly but surely replaced in that capacity by High German during the early modern period. Today Low German survives as a spoken dialect in northern Germany, and the geographical region in which it is spoken has shrunk considerably over the past five hundred years.
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2001
Dear Members and Subscribers, First of all, thanks to everyone involved in SMFSevents at Kalamazo... more Dear Members and Subscribers, First of all, thanks to everyone involved in SMFSevents at Kalamazoo this past May. There are so many of you! Isn't that great? Thanks to the Advisory Board members and the editors of MFF, to everyone who attended the business meeting and my fellow officers of SMFS, to the banquet organizers and last but not least to the panel organizers and presenters. SMFSis about supporting your scholarship.
Bridal-Quest Epics in Medieval Germany: A Revisionary Approach. By Sarah Bowden. London: igrs books, 2012. viii + 184 pages. 19.99
Monatshefte, 2015
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2011
This article describes an undergraduate, German-language course that aimed to improve students' l... more This article describes an undergraduate, German-language course that aimed to improve students' language skills, critical thinking, and declarative knowledge of German history and culture by studying multiple manifestations of the legend of Siegfried the Dragonslayer. The course used web-based e-learning tools to address two major learning challenges. Because learning to think and work with chronological data was required, a web-based timeline building tool, Google Docs Simile, was used to put students in charge of navigating the enormous historical range of the material. The second, related challenge emerged from the geographic, linguistic, and evidentiary diversity of the surviving material, which challenged students to acquire a degree of cultural literacy for an entire region and to apply appropriate interpretive tools to different kinds of evidence. To support this learning outcome, students used a web-blog tool to write a final, collaborative project, in which they collaboratively designed a mock-alumni tour. The course enhanced students' language skills and built their critical historical knowledge essential for understanding German-speaking lands.
Woman as Audience and Audience as Woman in Medieval German Courtly Poetry
Exemplaria, 1994
... Brockhaus, 1979]), Tristan demonstrating his artistic prowess and teaching the young Isolde i... more ... Brockhaus, 1979]), Tristan demonstrating his artistic prowess and teaching the young Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde ... To construct these overlaying triangles, I follow Eugene Vance's example and borrow the six roles (grouped in three categories with two ...
Bist du begehrt, so bist du wert Magische und höfische Mitgift für die Töchter
Mütter — Töchter — Frauen, 1993
War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten?: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter
Merkur, 2009
Fredrik B??k and Georg Luk?;cs: Two Twentieth Century Claimants to the Goethe Legacy
Orbis Litterarum, 1988
... Bibliothek Frank-furt am Main (Frankfurt a. M.: Buchhiindler-Vereinigung, 1982); Goethe unter... more ... Bibliothek Frank-furt am Main (Frankfurt a. M.: Buchhiindler-Vereinigung, 1982); Goethe unter den Deutschen: Materialien zur Iiterarischen Wirkung in drei Jahrhunderten, Bod0 Lecke (ed.) (Frankfurt aM, Berlin, Miinchen: Diesterweg, 1978); Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, The Idolatry ...
Elke Koch, Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. (Trends in Medieval Philology, 8.) Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. x, 319. €91.59
Speculum, 2009
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