Wie anders war das Mittelalter?
Fragen an das Konzept der Alterität
Edited by Manuel Braun Series edited by Martin Baisch Series edited by Johannes Keller Series edited by Elke Koch Series edited by Florian Kragl Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg Series edited by Matthias Meyer Series edited by Andrea Sieber
Hardback (Published)
(August 2013)
ISBN: 9783847101574
6.42 x 9.65 inches
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Modern mediaeval studies nowadays almost habitually model their object of study, the Middle Ages, as alteritary. The concept of alterity has attained a particular significance in Old German studies, which is why especially experts from this field now proceed to critically examine the capability of this term. The weakness of alterity is emerges particularly when used as an historical descriptive term. It presents the Middle Ages and their literature in various ways, not least by emphasizing difference. It therefore seems apposite to take the contrary standpoint and ask whether our notion of the Middle Ages would not become clearer and more complete if we paid more attention to invariables. Such invariables can be derived from general attributes of language, text and literature, but also from anthropology. German text.
English summary: Modern mediaeval studies nowadays almost habitually model their object of study, the Middle Ages, as alteritary. The concept of alterity has attained a particular significance in Old German studies, which is why especially experts from this field now proceed to critically examine the capability of this term. The weakness of alterity emerges particularly when used as an historical descriptive term. It presents the Middle Ages and their literature in various ways, not least by emphasizing difference. It therefore seems apposite to take the contrary standpoint and ask whether our notion of the Middle Ages would not become clearer and more complete if we paid more attention to invariables. Such invariables can be derived from general attributes of language, text and literature, but also from anthropology.German description: Die moderne Mediavistik modelliert ihren Gegenstand, das Mittelalter, mittlerweile geradezu gewohnheitsmassig als einen alteritaren. Besondere Bedeutung hat das Konzept der Alteritat in der Altgermanistik erlangt, weshalb es vor allem Vertreter dieses Faches sind, die sich nun anschicken, seine Leistungsfahigkeit kritisch zu prufen. Die Schwache der Alteritat tritt gerade dort hervor, wo sie als historischer Beschreibungsbegriff verwandt wird. Sie verzeichnet namlich das Mittelalter und seine Literatur auf vielfache Weise, nicht zuletzt dadurch, dass sie einseitig auf Differenz setzt. Deshalb erscheint es geboten, die Gegenperspektive einzunehmen und zu fragen, ob unser Bild vom Mittelalter nicht klarer und kompletter wird, wenn wir wieder starker auf Konstanten achten. Solche Konstanten lassen sich aus allgemeinen Eigenschaften von Sprache, Text und Literatur, aber auch aus der Anthropologie ableiten.
- Edited by Manuel Braun
- Series edited by Martin Baisch
- Series edited by Johannes Keller
- Series edited by Elke Koch
- Series edited by Florian Kragl
- Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg
- Series edited by Matthias Meyer
- Series edited by Andrea Sieber
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