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This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
List of contents
Introduction - Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Reflections
Chapter One - Water, Literature, Symbolism, and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective
Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient
Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas
Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World
Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water
Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance
Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality, Liquidity, and Epistemology
Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears, Water in
About the author
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Summary
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
