This work presents more than 40 places, which played prominent roles in medieval German narrative literature. It explores the language used to present these places, their plot functions, along with their historical and genre-specific connections. The volume compiles findings from recent spatial analytic research and develops individual analyses.

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Monika Hanauska and Mathias Herweg , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and Tilo Renz , Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.