Chips from a German Workshop
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ISBN13: 9780217187824
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with a variety of new faces. It is true that all this would hardly be sufficient to secure a decided success for a work like his at the present day. But then we must remember the time hi which he wrote. What had the poor people of Germany to read toward the end of the fifteenth century ? Printing had been invented, and books were published and sold with great rapidity. People were not only fond, but proud, of reading books. Reading was fashionable, and the first fool who enters Brant's ship is the man who buys books. But what were the books that were offered for sale ? We find among the early prints of the fifteenth century religious, theological, and classical works in great abundance, and we know that the respectable and wealthy burghers of Augsburg and Strassburg were proud to fill their shelves with these portly volumes. But then German aldermen had wives, and daughters, and sons, and what were they to read during the long winter evenings ? The poetry of the thirteenth century was no longer intelligible, and the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had produced very little that would be to the taste of young ladies and gentlemen. The poetry of the Meistersanger was not very exhilarating. The romances of The Book of Heroes had lost all their native charms under the rough treatment they had experienced at the hand of their latest editor, Casper von der Roen. The so-called Misteries (not mysteries) might be very well as Christmas pantomimes once a year, but they could not be read for their own sake, like the dramatic literature of later times. The light literature of the day consisted entirely in novels; and in spite of their miserable character, their popularity was immense. Besides the Gesta Romanorum, which were turned into German verse and prose, we meet with ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217187824 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021718782X |
| Weight | 0.86 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 In |
| List Price | $23.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 262 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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