Four prose epics from the 15th century ascribed to Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken are examined here from a variety of perspectives: transmission, narratology, cultural semantics. The reconstruction of the narrative strategy is bound up with the question of the way the epics interrelate in the historical context. With recourse to culture-anthropological approaches and reference to writings of a scholarly/academic nature and the illustrations in the manuscript, an attempt is made to point up the differential features of various kinds of text.

Zusammenfassung

"Niemand, der sich in den nächsten Jahrzehnten mit diesen Texten beschäftigt, wird an ihrer Studie vorbei können."
Bernd Bastert in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie, 2007