POČECI PISMENOSTI MEĐU GERMANIMA. PREDHRIŠĆANSKO PESNIŠTVO. UTICAJ HRIŠĆANSTVA (I DEO)
POČECI PISMENOSTI MEĐU GERMANIMA. PREDHRIŠĆANSKO PESNIŠTVO. UTICAJ HRIŠĆANSTVA (I DEO)
Author(s): Slobodan GrubačićSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, Historical Linguistics, German Literature, 6th to 12th Centuries, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: the relatively limited amount of literature; the earliest known works in Old High German; “The Merseburg Incantations” and “The Song of Hildebrand”;
Summary/Abstract: The survey presented here shows how the German literary identity gradually took shape over more than four centuries, through influences from abroad and, at home, enterprising attempt to find new ways of expression. It is difficult to provide exact dates for the Old period, due to the relatively small number of textual sources available, but it is generally accepted that the centuries from 800 to 1100 were the highpoint of Old German literary activity. Of all the pagan poetry hardly anything has survived. The famous „Hildebrandslied“, an epic fragment narrating an episode of the Dietrich saga - the tragic combat between father and son -- was written down after 800 by two monks of Fulda, on the covers of a theological manuscript. In this article light is shone on those works that have to some extent been overshadowed. Each individual work opens up intertextual „chasms” which led to digressions into the history of ideas. The result is a multi-faceted panorama, offering many insights into the mentality of texts and their socio-cultural contexts.
Journal: Folia Linguistica et Litteraria
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 7-25
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Serbian