The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century ( c . 1220-1920) by analysing the attitudes of narrative poets towards the issue of authorship. It describes the various ways in which vernacular writers could address the theme of their own authorship within their literary works, and explores the tensions that arose between such authorial strategies on the one hand and their subsequent manuscript transmission on the other.

Sebastian Coxon is Lecturer in German, Somerville College, Oxford