Lesen und erleben : Zugänge zum heiligen land in deutschsprachigen pilgertexten des 15. jahrhunderts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the late medieval German speaking lands, texts, objects, and images that sought to make the spatially distant Holy Land and the temporally distant Biblical events present were widespread. To these media belonged late medieval pilgrimage texts, which often incorporated images, offered modes of reception that allowed to imaginatively approach the spatially distant Holy Land as well as the temporally distant events of salvation history that took place there without going on a journey to the Levante. In my dissertation, I closely analyze three 15th century pilgrimage texts written in the German vernacular: Felix Fabri's Die Sionpilger, Hans Tucher's Reise ins Gelobte Land and Arnold of Harff's Die Pilgerfahrt des Ritters Arnold von Harff. Late medieval pilgrimage texts, I argue in the dissertation, aim at a wide spectrum of reader response. They invite their readers to recreate, share and understand the shared and lived experiences of late medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem from afar. To this end, they develop a set of literary, medial and material strategies. As I show in the four chapters of my dissertation, pilgrimage texts allow for different degrees of involvement and participation in the narrated experiences of travelling to the Holy Land. In some cases, the audience is confined to the role of a passive observer who can gain an abstract understanding of pilgrimage by reading. Other modes allow for an active participation from afar or even evoke imaginary lived experiences of pilgrimage. I show that late medieval German pilgrimage texts do far more than just giving accounts of completed pilgrimages. I propose to rather understand pilgrimage accounts as texts which cater to the wishes of their readership to experience the faraway places of salvation -- even if only by means of reading. In so doing, these texts offer to their readers options to build experiences of pilgrimage without travelling. Even though their contemporary readers might have never set foot in the Holy Land, they thus could still engage with the loca sancta and hope for their salvific effects by engaging with words, images, and objects.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Reisch, Mareike Elisa |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Griffiths, Fiona J |
| Degree supervisor | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Griffiths, Fiona J |
| Thesis advisor | Starkey, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Backes, Martina |
| Thesis advisor | Beebe, Kathryne, 1978- |
| Thesis advisor | Eshel, Amir |
| Degree committee member | Backes, Martina |
| Degree committee member | Beebe, Kathryne, 1978- |
| Degree committee member | Eshel, Amir |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of German Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mareike Elisa Reisch. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of German Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hv151cj7810 |
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- © 2022 by Mareike Elisa Reisch
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