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I Segni premonitori del Giudizio Universale in un inedito testo tedesco del XV secolo
2022
Numerous lists of the premonitory signs of the Last Judgment and wider narratives focussing on the same motif, which presents variants and articulated typologies, circulated throughout the Middle Ages, both in Latin and in the vernacular languages. Also in Germany the motif continues to be present in literature up to the threshold of the modern age, with the Lutheran Reform which is, also in this case, a watershed. The purpose of the contribution is the philological-literary analysis of a prose composition, in late German, devoted to the 15 Signs of Judgment, still unpublished, preserved in the ms. München, BStB cgm 522 (ff. 163v-166v), datable around 1470. The codex contains a miscellany o…
Auf den Spuren öffentlicher Meinung im mittelhochdeutschen Minnesang
2011
The scope of this study is to analyse if and how traces of public opinion, in the sociopsychological sense of social control, may be found in the German medieval love lyrics. With the aid of a hermeneutic text analysis some selected Middle High German minnesongs are exemplarily examined. The analysis shows that awareness of public opinion as social control did exist in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, there are minnesongs that raise the topics ere (honour) and spot (mockery). In these songs public mockery represents a threat of isolation against individuals who do not conform to public opinion. Because mockery may lead to loss of honour and to social isolation, mockery pressures individual…
Filologia Germanica – Germanic Philology. Altotedesco Antico e Protomedio (VIII-XII sec.) / Old and Early Middle High German (8th-12th c.)
2016
Precious stones and ‘wondrous’ minerals in Old High German glosses
2018
This essay will focus on the names of precious stones and minerals which were known and praised for their extraordinary properties in Old High German glosses and glossaries. The research aims to shed light on the circulation of stone lore in medieval Germany, and the strategies employed by the glossators when approaching this peculiar lexical field. In a number of cases, the interpretamentum takes the form of an explanatory gloss, providing a short description of the stone, which can include details on its colour, shape and physical properties. The features of the glosses under examination will hopefully yield relevant data on the knowledge of the precious stones and their physical appearan…
Augšvācu rakstu valodas ienākšana Rīgas rātes kancelejā 16. gadsimtā
2015
Darba tēma ir „ Augšvācu rakstu valodas ienākšana Rīgas rātes kancelejā 16. gadsimtā”. Augšvācu rakstu valodas attīstība ir iespējams viens no svarīgākajiem notikumiem vācu valodas attīstības vēsturē, kas dažādu vēsturisku iemeslu dēļ norit ne tikai Vācijas impērijas kancelejās, bet arī Rīgas pilsētas kancelejā. Šajā darbā tika pētīta vācu valodas attīstība Rīgas rātes rakstu valodā. Tika veikta dažādu Rīgas rātes tekstu analizē ar mērķi iegūt informāciju par augšvācu valodas attīstību izvēlētajos tekstos. Izvēlētie teksti ir apkopoti grāmatā Die Quellen der Rigischen Stadtrechts bis zum Jahr, kas ir daudzpusīgs vēsturisko tekstu avots.
The Names of the ‘Pearl’ in the Old High German Glosses and Glossaries
2019
The essay will provide a scrutiny of the words merigrioz and perala occurring in the Old High German glosses to render the Latin words for ‘pearl’, i.e. unio and margarita, with the purpose of mapping the distribution and the contexts of use of the OHG words. The analysis will contribute to trace the origin of the German word for ‘pearl’, starting from the earliest stage of the language and – from a perspective of language contact – which takes into account the Latin counterparts of these OHG glosses.
The development of “junk”. Irregularization strategies of have and say in the Germanic languages
2001
Although it is a wellknown fact that the most frequent verbs are the most irregular ones (if not suppletive), it is rarely asked how they became irregular. This article deals with the irregularization process of two originally regular (weak) verbs, HAVE and SAY in the Germanic languages, e.g. have, but has/’s and had/’d (instead of regular *haves/*haved) or say [sei], but says [sez] and said [sed] in English. Other verbs, such as DO, GO, STAND, BE, COME, and so on, also tend to irregularizations again and again without any apparent reason. In contrast to HAVE and SAY these verbs have always been rather irregular, at least dating from their first written records.