Traditionelles und Innovatives in der geistlichen Literatur des Mittelalters

In medieval literature, tradition and innovation are often closer together than it seems at first glance. Again and again, traditional things are presented as new so as not to be boring, or innovative things as highly traditional and source-bound so as not to be offensive. The relationship between tradition and innovation has always been precarious for all medieval literature, but it becomes highly problematic, even existential, for spiritual poetry and literature that is committed to the Word revealed in the Bible.



Prof. Dr. Jens Haustein lehrt Germanistische Mediävistik an der Universität Jena; Dr. Regina D. Schiewer ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Forschungsstelle für geistliche Literatur des Mittelalters an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; Prof. Dr. Martin Schubert lehrt Germanistische Mediävistik an der Universität Duisburg-Essen; Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kilian Weigand lehrt Deutsche Philologie - Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.