Handbuch der Sentenzen und Sprichwrter im hfischen Roman des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, Band 1, Artusromane bis 1230

This compendium is the first work to provide a complete and methodologically reflected documentation of the maxims and sayings in medieval German Arthurian, Grail and Tristan romances. A differentiated listing collects the maxims in 21 romances from a span of some 100 years (approx. 1170a '1300), reflects their narrative context, gives a semantic explanation via a paraphrase, locates them in the aphoristic network of the relevant text by pointing to parallel passages, and using citations from the Bible and medieval literature in Latin and the vernacular(s) locates them in the relevant tradition of their usage.