From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

by Salvatore Colomino
From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany

by Salvatore Colomino

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Overview

This monograph examines a fifteenth-century German prose redaction of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend.
Through a comparison with contemporary versions of the story, the text edited here is shown to be an original contribution to the corpus of fifteenth-century hagiographic literature. A discussion of innovations in the prose
Barlaam and Josaphat text further emphasizes differences from earlier poetic versions of the legend. Through an expansion of liturgical references and corresponding deletion of any secular commentary, the prose reviser has effectively adapted his material to a fifteenth-century clerical audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780916379681
Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
Publication date: 06/18/2015
Series: Scripta Humanistica
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)
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