Reviews for German Literature of the High Middle Ages

The average rating for German Literature of the High Middle Ages based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-10 00:00:00 Victor Lebron This third volume in the Camden House series on German literature brings the medieval period to a close and keeps up with the quality of the previous volumes in the series. This volume covers the classic period of medieval German literature and explores the works of Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach plus a few lesser known Arthurian romance authors. Also covered are the heroic epics withs chapters devoted to the Nibelungenlied, Kudrun and the later Dietrich Cycle. An added bonus to this volume is that for once there's also a few chapters devoted to the Post Classical Arthurian authors such as Der Pleiers. An ideal reference tool for both students and academics researching the literature from the 11th to 14th century period.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-07 00:00:00 Toralf Wirsig ESPAÑOL: Excelente diálogo de Cicerón, que habla por boca de Catón el viejo. Veamos algunas de las citas más señeras para mí: [La vejez.] Hasta que es alcanzada, todos la desean; y en llegando a ella, le echan la culpa de muchos achaques. ¡Tanta es la inconstancia y el desconcierto de la necedad humana! Dicen que se les entró en casa más pronto de lo que pensaban. [El viejo] es de mejor condición que el mozo, porque lo que el mozo espera, ya el viejo lo consiguió. El joven anhela una larga vida, que el anciano ha vivido ya. Porque cuando [el fin] llega, lo que ha pasado se fue como el humo; y sólo nos queda lo que hayamos logrado con la virtud y la práctica del bien. Ennio [escribió]: "nadie me honre con llanto cuando yo muera..." Que no se debe llorar una muerte a la que sigue la inmortalidad. Y si algún dios me ofreciese volver a la niñez... rehusaría decididamente: anduve ya casi mi camino y no quisiera volver al punto de donde partí. Y si después de la muerte - como han sostenido filósofos insignificantes - nada sintiere, no temo que los filósofos que murieron se rían de mí. ENGLISH: Excellent dialogue by Cicero, who speaks through the voice of Cato the Elder. Let us see a few of the best quotes (for me): [Old age.] Until it is reached, everyone wants it; and in arriving at it, they blame it for many ailments. Such is the inconstancy and bewilderment of human folly! They say it came to them sooner than they thought. [The old man] is in a better condition than the youth, because what the youth expects, the old man already has. The youth longs for a long life, which the old man has already lived. When [the end] arrives, what has happened goes like smoke; and we only have left what we achieved with virtue and the practice of goodness. Ennius [wrote]: "Let no one honor me with tears when I die..." One should not mourn a death followed by immortality. And if some god offered me to return to childhood... I would resolutely refuse: I have almost finished my way and do not want to return to the starting point. And if after death - as insignificant philosophers have argued - there is nothing, I have not fear that those dead philosophers will laugh at me.