The Kassel Willehalm manuscript (Kassel, Hessische Landesbibliothek 2° MS poet. et roman. I) is u... more The Kassel Willehalm manuscript (Kassel, Hessische Landesbibliothek 2° MS poet. et roman. I) is unusual in several respects. This large format codex would have been an ambitious and expensive undertaking, with some 425 illustrations planned for the text. Those that have been completed are of the highest quality, executed in brilliant colours and gold - unusual for a vernacular manuscript.
Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks... more Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. In its depth and complexity of characterisation this work of the early thirteenth century anticipates the modern novel. It encompasses deeds of chivalry, tournaments and sieges, courtly love, and other erotic undertakings, but also sin and penance, and a deeply moving study in depression. All is underpinned by the narrator's irrepressible humour. The central stages are the Grail Castle and Arthur's Round Table, but the pagan world of the Orient also plays its role. Parzival has inspired and influenced works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Loheng...
The Kassel Willehalm manuscript (Kassel, Hessische Landesbibliothek 2° MS poet. et roman. I) is u... more The Kassel Willehalm manuscript (Kassel, Hessische Landesbibliothek 2° MS poet. et roman. I) is unusual in several respects. This large format codex would have been an ambitious and expensive undertaking, with some 425 illustrations planned for the text. Those that have been completed are of the highest quality, executed in brilliant colours and gold - unusual for a vernacular manuscript.
Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks... more Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. In its depth and complexity of characterisation this work of the early thirteenth century anticipates the modern novel. It encompasses deeds of chivalry, tournaments and sieges, courtly love, and other erotic undertakings, but also sin and penance, and a deeply moving study in depression. All is underpinned by the narrator's irrepressible humour. The central stages are the Grail Castle and Arthur's Round Table, but the pagan world of the Orient also plays its role. Parzival has inspired and influenced works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Loheng...
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