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Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois and Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône. (2006)
Book Chapter
Thomas, N. E. (2006). Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois and Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône. In W. Hasty (Ed.), German Literature of the High Middle Ages (203-214). Camden House

The High Middle Ages, and particularly the period from 1180 to 1230, saw the beginnings of a vibrant literary culture in the German vernacular. While significant literary achievements in German had already been made in earlier centuries, they were a... Read More about Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois and Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône..

Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation (2005)
Book
Thomas, N. (2005). Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation. Boydell & Brewer

Arthurian romance flourished in medieval Germany, but the pre-eminence of Wolfram von Eschenbach has perhaps overshadowed some of his successors. This book focuses on Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, the later thirteenth-century Arthurian romance. It... Read More about Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation.

Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare. (2004)
Book
Thomas, N., Saunders, C., & Saux, F. L. (Eds.). (2004). Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare. Boydell & Brewer

War is a powerful and enduring literary topos, a repeated theme in both secular and religious literary genres of the middle ages. The idea and practice of war is central to some of the most dominant subject matters in the medieval period - as well as... Read More about Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare..

The Growth of the Tristan and Iseut Legend in Wales, England, France and Germany. (2003)
Book
Thomas, N., Le Saux, F., Hardman, P., & Noble, P. (Eds.). (2003). The Growth of the Tristan and Iseut Legend in Wales, England, France and Germany. Edwin Mellen Press

These essays examine the links among the four main areas where the Tristan legend flourished. It examines how the legend adapted to each new period and assimilated the new ideas and fashions of the societies for which the authors were writing, over a... Read More about The Growth of the Tristan and Iseut Legend in Wales, England, France and Germany..

Duplicity and Duplexity. The Isolde of the White Hands sequence. (2002)
Book Chapter
Thomas, N. (2002). Duplicity and Duplexity. The Isolde of the White Hands sequence. In W. Hasty (Ed.), A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan. Camden House

The legend of Tristan and Isolde -- the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love -- achieved its most complete and profound rendering in the German poet Gottfried von Strassburg's verse romance Tristan (ca. 1... Read More about Duplicity and Duplexity. The Isolde of the White Hands sequence..

German Studies at the Millennium. (1999)
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Thomas, N. E. (Ed.). (1999). German Studies at the Millennium. Durham Modern Languages Series

The essays in this volume give some sense of the range of research and teaching interests in German departments in tertiary education, and demonstrate the evolution that has taken place in these areas in the last few decades. Contributors all have a... Read More about German Studies at the Millennium..

Wolfram von Eschenbach: modes of narrative presentation. (1998)
Book Chapter
Thomas, N. E. (1998). Wolfram von Eschenbach: modes of narrative presentation. In W. Hasty (Ed.), A Companion to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (224-239). Camden House

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival expands and transforms the Arthurian tradition into a grand depiction of the medieval cosmos around 1200. Standing between clerical and chivalric cultures and articulating the interests and values of both, Wolfram pr... Read More about Wolfram von Eschenbach: modes of narrative presentation..

The Politics of Romance: Some observations on the Roman d'Yder. (1995)
Book Chapter
Thomas, N. E. (1995). The Politics of Romance: Some observations on the Roman d'Yder. In F. Le Saux (Ed.), The Formation of Culture in Medieval Britain. Edwin Mellen Press

Papers cover the phenomenon of trans-cultural contact in the areas of Medieval English, French, Latin and Welsh literature and historiography, as well as musicology and material culture. Essays include: Constance Bullock-Davies, 1900-1989 (Rachel Bro... Read More about The Politics of Romance: Some observations on the Roman d'Yder..

Reading the Nibelungenlied. (1995)
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Thomas, N. E. (1995). Reading the Nibelungenlied. Durham Modern Languages Series

Neil Thomas's Reading the Nibelungenlied attempts to access the mainsprings of what nineteenth- and twentieth-century German writers such as Wagner, Volker Braun and Heiner Mueller have seen as the master narrative of the German tradition. In its sto... Read More about Reading the Nibelungenlied..