Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.

In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocal

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic sto