Instructor: Albrecht Classen
Friday | 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | In-Person
Fall 2024
Heinrich Kaufringer was one of the most important late medieval German poets (fl. ca. 1400). In his many short verse narratives he presented a wide variety of issues relevant in human life: happiness, death, love, marriage, religion, justice, virtues and vices, the danger of excessive drinking, corruption, law and lawyers, etc. We will go through one story per class session and will use them as historical mirrors for our own lives. Please contact your Honors Academic Advisor to be enrolled in the class. Textbook: Love, Life, and Lust in Heinrich Kaufringer’s Verse Narratives. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 467. MRTS Texts for Teaching, 9 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014), xxvii, 155 pp. Rev. and expanded 2nd ed., 2019. No GE