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Title
Water in medieval literature
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Monograph
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LCC: PN682.W37 C53 2018 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 809/.02 full (Source: 23)
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Table Of Contents
An introduction: Theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary reflections
Water, literature, symbolism, and epistemology in the pre-modern age: a pan-European perspective
Water and voyages in the Goliardic epic poem of Herzog Ernst: transformation and maturation through travel into the mysterious Orient
The experience with water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: spiritual epistemology in the western seas
Water worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: the search for happiness in a fluid world
Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: the religious transformation through water
Water symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: the material and the spiritual dimension of water in a Middle High German grail romance
Mechthild of Magdeburg's mystical The flowing Light of the Godhead: spirituality, liquidity, and epistemology in medieval mysticism
The water worlds in Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): narrative explorations of tears, water in fountains, wells, and in the Mediterranean
Water as markers of identity, space, and time in the Icelandic saga Njál's Saga: travel, war, and water in the world of old Norse literature
Water creatures, wells, the other life, hybridity, and the aquatic dimension: the myth of Melusine in the prose romance by Jean d'Arras
Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and other problems with water: flooding, voyaging, sexual violence, and refuge.
Authorized Access Point
Classen, Albrecht. Water in medieval literature