Herbert Schutz Livres

This illustrated book continues themes in Central European cultural history treated elsewhere with the intention of presenting an interdisciplinary study of early medieval socio-cultural developments.A continuation of the preceding books, this volume examines the archeological evidence of the groups who settled Central Europe. It aims to amplify the information recorded during the late Roman Empire about societies, social dynamics and ethnological contexts by examining their material culture. The language of significant objects complements the literature of significant texts.The three parts of the book inform of the historical and archeological evidence; elaborate the socio-cultural conclusions provided by archeology; examine the system of values as reflected in the forms of artistic expression. The study of objects helps clarify the contours of the Germanic populations of pre-Carolingian Central Europe.

This book explores the literature that characterized the Romanesque period in Central Europe from 900 to 1300, highlighting the contributions of clerics and monks who shaped the perception of the Middle Ages as a bookish and spiritual era. While oral culture represented the largely illiterate population, it played a subordinate role. Nevertheless, individualistic oral lay culture maintained its significance, influencing and moderating the church's reformative intellectualism. By the early eleventh century, knighthood began to set the cultural tone, leading to the emergence of new secular literature in the German vernacular by the late thirteenth century, marking a shift from religious to secular themes. Chivalry introduced competing values alongside those of the church. The study covers six key topics: empirical and spiritual knowledge, Medieval Liturgical Drama, Middle High German Epic Poetry, Courtly Romances, and Middle High German Lyric Poetry. Some Latin literature aimed at educating an audience on the moral dangers of secular works. The role of women as both practitioners and subjects in religious and secular contexts gained prominence. While these literary genres served didactic purposes, they also reflected the erosion of cultural supports and the societal changes leading to the eventual collapse during the Romanesque period.

"The Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750 complements the scant historical and ethnographic information left by the classical authors about the peoples of the "migration" period in Central Europe with extensive archeological evidence. This allows additional conclusions about what the people valued, what their sense of style was, how they felt about one another, where and how they lived, and from what they suffered and died. We can even deduce something of their beliefs. By examining their settlement patterns, funerary practices, material cultures, myths of origin and their Christianization, this book presents a complementary picture of their individual characteristics. It is the intention of this book to make available for English readers a clearer cultural profile of the emergent populations in early medieval Central Europe."--BOOK JACKET

Kasack placed himself outside the mainstream of the German literary tradition in his search for an adequate mode of artistic expression. For Kasack, as for Rilke, birth and death are transitions and are not antithetically opposed. Western man's homocentric ideas are crumbling, revealing a void, dissolving the mythical bond between man and the universe.