Hardly anything has been more influential in forming the modern era's definition of itself than its relation to the pre-modern. That is why medieval reception constitutes a central discursive space on the formation of cultural identity of individuals and cultural systems. Ranging from humanism to the present and from Jörg Wickram to Dan Brown, this volume considers basic questions on the forms and functions of the reception of the Middle Ages.

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Mathias Herweg, Universität Karlsruhe ; Stefan Keppler-Tasaki, Universität Tokio, Japan.