Achnitz, Wolfgang: Turnier ohne Zuschauer

Zitation

Achnitz, Wolfgang: Turnier ohne Zuschauer: Historischer Gehalt und sprachliche Gestalt in Konrads von Würzburg ›Turnier von Nantes‹. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 144/1 (2022), S. 66-91

Beschreibung

The ›Turnier von Nantes‹, attributed to Konrad von Würzburg, is considered a political poem. However, the specific historical occasion is controversial in research because of the ambiguous facts. This also applies to the dating. But the identified mixture of unspecific facts with fictitious elements can be described according to the rhetoric procedure of narratio verisimilis (verisimilitudo). The work of art therefore does not report an actual, but a fictitious event – and just like the tournament it expresses the common self-image of the medieval aristocratic society.

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