Konzepte von Ehre und Treue in der mittelalterlichen deutschen und niederländischen Tierepik: Vergleichende narratologisch-semantische Analysen: Reinhart Fuchs, Van den vos Reynaerde und Reynaerts historie ; Concepts of Honour and Loyalty in medieval German and Dutch animal epics: Comparative narratological-semantic analyses: Reinhart Fuchs, Van den vos Reynaerde, and Reynaerts historie

This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of concepts of honour and loyalty in medieval German and Dutch animal epics. It concerns analyses of three Germanic fox stories: Reinhart Fuchs, Van den vos Reynaerde, and Reynaerts historie. They are examined here from a systematic comparative perspective for the first time. The emphasis is on the categories 'honour' and 'loyalty', which play a central role in the relationship between a king and his servants in the Middle Ages. The courtly categories 'honour' and 'loyalty' have previously been studied through other texts, but not y... Mehr ...