Amicus Und Amelius Im Europaischen Mittelalter

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English summary: Amicus and Amelius were not just any pair of friends: The Middle Ages regarded them as saints, and they were seen as the epitome of friendship. Narratives of their lives spread from eleventh-century France to the rest of Europe, where they stayed popular well into the fifteenth century. Variants of the story of Amicus and Amelius all detail the ways in which the friends depend on one another in moments of crisis, and how they die together in Mortara in Lombardy. Ideal as their friendship might appear at first sight however, the various texts narrating their story treat them from radically different perspectives when it comes to the handling of delicate ethical matters: Amelius sacrifices his children to cure Amicus from leprosy, while Amicus assumes Amelius's identity to win a judicial fight, killing Amelius's opponent in a duel. The friends look identical, meaning their role-swapping goes unnoticed. Somewhat problematically, it is the innocence of stand-in duelist Amicus that helps Amelius win his case; Amelius is guilty since he had an affair with the monarch's daughter. But Amelius's opponent, Hardericus, is clearly the wrong sort of friend: a jealous faker of friendship who had used Amelius's trust only to report him to the king. Amelius and Amicus's friendship survives Hardericus's betrayal. In the end, both friends are well, and thanks to a miracle, even the children stay alive. Later the two friends die in battle and are laid to rest in the same splendid tomb. Lena Oetjens presents a bilingual edition of the three Latin versions of the Amicus and Amelius tradition (translation in German). Her commentary contextualizes the texts' representations of friendship, investigating their theological aspects in particular. Oetjens shows that the Song of Roland is central to the understanding of the Latin texts; Roland's martyrdom links the Amicus and Amelius narratives with the idea of a 'holy war' legitimized by God. Yet the Song of Roland provides but one of the relevant contexts for Amicus and Amelius. The study shows further intertextual encounters between Amicus and Amelius with the pious pilgrims of the Jakobsbruder as well as with the brave knights in the Chanson d'Ami et Ami or Konrad`s Engelhart. French and German adaptations of the material include or omit aspects of the plot which highlight the question of loyality either in an epic or a religious way. Oetjens thus carefully reconstructs the tradition using a wide variety of texts and contexts, providing an overview of the relevant texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, including historiographical, pastoral, and hagiographical traditions in Latin as well as various vernacular languages. German description: Amicus und Amelius galten in der mittelalterlichen Literatur als Inbegriff der Freundschaft. Sie sehen einander zum Verwechseln ahnlich, stehen in mehreren Krisen bedingungslos fureinander ein und sterben gemeinsam. Doch die mehrsprachige, jahrhundertealte Erzahltradition ihrer Freundschaftstreue weist zugleich Ambivalenzen auf. Die radikalen Entscheidungen, dass Amicus wegen der heimlichen Liebe des Freundes zur Konigstochter im Gerichtskampf einen Mann totet und Amelius fur die Heilung des kranken Freundes die eigenen Kinder opfert, werden in den Texten jeweils anders perspektiviert. Die Autorin prasentiert die drei Haupttexte dieser Erzahltradition in einer lateinisch-deutschen Ausgabe. Sie differenziert in drei Fallstudien die je verschiedenen Spannungen zwischen dyadischer Freundschaft, deren Relation zur Gesellschaft sowie der christlichen Religion und ordnet sie in ihr literaturhistorisches Umfeld ein. Die Ergebnisse der Fallstudien zeigen, dass Rolands Martyrium wesentlich zum Verstandnis der lateinischen Amicus und Amelius-Tradition beitragt. Denn die Gerechtigkeit des durch Gott legitimierten Krieges aus der Roland-Tradition wird mit dem Freundschaftsideal von Amicus und Amelius verschrankt. Die Autorin diskutiert diesen Zusammenhang mittels uberlieferungsgeschichtlicher, poetologischer und kulturhistorischer Argumente.Fur die Erschliessung der rezeptionsgeschichtlichen Dynamik fugt die Autorin eine komparatistisch breit angelegte Ubersicht von Werken des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts hinzu. Wahrend sich die historiographischen und pastoral-theologischen Texte einerseits weiterhin an die lateinische hagiographische Tradition anschliessen lassen, resultiert andererseits bereits aus ihrer Ubertragung in andere Sprachen und Kulturraume eine unterschiedlich breite Varianz auf semantischer, struktureller und handlungslogischer Ebene. Die volkssprachlichen Adaptationen hingegen stehen in ihrer Art des Wiedererzahlens quer zur lateinischen Tradition: Jedes dieser Werke hat eine eigene Intention, konzentriert sich auf die dafur geeigneten Handlungskerne der Materia und tilgt weitere Aspekte. Die unterschiedlich akzentuierenden Werke spitzen die Treue von Amicus und Amelius dabei entweder episch oder geistlich zu. So demonstriert die Autorin Verbindungslinien sowohl zu den frommen Pilgern der Jakobsbruder als auch zu den tapferen Rittern der Chanson d'Ami et Ami oder des hofischen Engelhart Konrads von Wurzburg. Die vorliegende Erschliessung der Werke uber Amicus und Amelius in ihrer jeweiligen kontextuellen Einbindung lasst ihre Komplexitat erst sichtbar werden und bietet interdisziplinar neue Perspektiven auf diese facettenreiche mittelalterliche Erzahltradition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783954901500
  • Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 612
  • Series Title: German
  • ISBN-10: 3954901501
  • Publisher Date: 06 Dec 2016
  • Language: German
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1024 gr


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