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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810652103321

Titolo

The Nibelungen tradition : an encyclopedia / / edited by Francis G. Gentry. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-75019-3

0-429-23611-5

0-203-82043-6

1-299-28762-X

1-136-75020-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GentryFrancis G

Disciplina

830

Soggetti

Nibelungen

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Primary works -- pt. II. Personal and place names -- pt. III. Themes, motifs, objects, and key words -- pt. IV. Manuscript collections and literary/historical analogues -- pt. V. Scholarship -- pt. VI. The literary reception of the Nibelungen theme in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland -- pt. VII. The literary reception of the Nibelungen theme in non-German-speaking countries -- pt. VIII. Music and composers -- pt. IX. Art, artists, film, filmmakers, sculpture, and sculptors -- pt. X. Miscellaneous : historians, clerics, politics, the military, propaganda, psychology, education, icongraphy, and geography.

Sommario/riassunto

Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land of origin. Its international influence extends from literature to music, art, film, politics and propaganda, psychology, archeology, and military history.Now for the first time all references to the vast Nibelungen tradition have been catalogued in this comprehensive encyclopedia containing nearly 1000 entries by several dozen international contributors, including the most distinguished s