Rezeptionskulturen

Hardly anything has been more influential in forming the modern era'¬"s definition of itself than its position in relation to the '¬Spre-modern'¬. That is why medieval reception is not just a secondary effect of the echo of medieval texts or topics but itself constitutes a central area of discourse on the formation of cultural identity by individuals and cultural systems. In a historical journey from humanism up to the present and from Jörg Wickram to Dan Brown, this volume considers basic questions on the forms and functions of medieval reception '¬ ; the cultures of reception between canon and pop culture.