The book studies those sacred songs of the Monk of Salzburg corpus which do not rely directly on a Latinmelodic or textualoriginal. These songs show the form of the canzonic stanza and have therefore been considered to belong into the vernacular tradition of Sangspruchdichtung and Meistergesang. In contrast, the study argues that they rely on, imitate and modify the model of the (monophonic) Latin Liturgical Song, a genre which emerged in the late 12th century and was highly productive in Central Europe until the mid-15th century. For this purpose, a substantial number of late medieval Latin manuscripts containing songs have been assorted, a selection of the Latin songs is edited in an appendix.
About the Author: Contributor Biography - English Stefan Rosmer studied German Philology, Musicology and Media and Communication at Leipzig University from 2000 to 2006. In 2006/07 he taught German Linguistics a the Germanic Departement of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service. 2009-2018 he worked at the German Seminar at the University of Basel, where he obtained his PhD in 2014. Since 2018 he holds a grant from the Swiss National Fund for a research project on Early Medieval Literature and Historical Narratology working at the Georg August University in Gottingen and the University of Santiago de Compostela. His main fields of interest are medieval lyric, especially sacred poetry; late medieval monophony; Sangspruchdichtung; early medieval versifications of the Bible; narratology; praxeological theorie Contributor Biography - German Stefan Rosmer, Studium der Germanistik, Musikwissenschaft und Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft an der Universitat Leipzig 2000-2006, 2006/2007 als Sprachassistent des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes an der Eotvos-Lorand-Universitat im Bereich der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft tatig. 2009-2013 Lehrbeauftragter, ab 2013 Assistent an der Universitat Basel, Promotion in Basel 2014 (Altere deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), zur Zeit als Stipendiat des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds fur ein Forschungsprojekt zur Historischen Narratologie an den Universitaten Gottingen und Santiago de CompostelaForschungsschwerpunkte: Mittelalterliche Lyrik, insbesondere spatmittelalterliche geistliche Lyrik und Sangspruchdichtung; spatmittelalterliche Einstimmigkeit; Narratologie; fruhmittelalterliche Bibelepik, praxeologische Kulturtheorie und Erzahltheorie