Table of Contents

List of Figures; Introduction; The Neidhart Songs and Their Manuscript Transmission; Manuscript R; Textual Criticism and Neidhart Editions; Who was Neidhart?; Neidhart's Subgenres, Motifs, and Poetic Language; Seasonal Openings: Summer and Winter Songs; Peasants and Neidhart's Rustic World; Friderun, Engelmar, and the Theft of the Mirror; Conversations between Girlfriends; Mother-Daughter Dialogues; Dancing; Neidhart Reception in the Literature of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Neidhart Reception in Images of the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries; Neidhart - miniature in MS C Regensburg, Germany: Glockengasse 14; Vienna, Austria: Tuchlauben 19; Zurich, Switzerland: Brunngasse 8; Notes on this Edition, Translation, and Commentary; Selected Songs from the Riedegg Manuscript; Appendix: Concordance; Abbreviations; Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Kathryn Starkey is Professor of German Studies at Stanford University. Her research interests include medieval German literature, history of the book, and visual culture. She is the author of A Courtier's Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's "Welscher Gast" (2013) and Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Willehalm" (2004). Edith Wenzel is Professor Emerita for Medieval German Language and Literature. Her fields of research include Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe, gender studies, medieval poetry, Neidhart, and Neithardiana. She is author of Do worden die Judden alle geschant - Rolle und Funktion der Juden in spatmittelalterlichen Spielen (1992) and Zur Textkritik und Uberlieferungsgeschichte einiger Sommerlieder Neidharts (1973).