Developed by renowned scholars in the field, this handbook presents current research on one of the principal genres of medieval German poetry the Sangspruch . It describes the genre's pragmatic and media-related determinants, literary contexts, the most important thematic foci, forms, and authors, as well as the historical development of the genre.

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Jens Haustein, Jena, Dorothea Klein, Würzburg, Horst Brunner, Würzburg and Holger Runow, Munich, Germany.