BOUND POETS: THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY ON GERMAN POETS OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

Authors

Brian Dunn, Brigham Young University
Dr. Johannes Evelein, Brigham Young University

Keywords

German poets, high Middles Ages, medieval culture, literary works

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

Poets of the German high Middle Ages, the period around 1200 AD which represents the pinnacle of medieval achievement, were greatly influenced by the society around them. Politics, religion, and medieval culture all figure prominently in the works of these artists. The content of the great works of this period (for my study’s sake, I used Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzifal and Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan, arguably the two most noted works of the time) may have been very different if it were not for the outside societal influences.

Recommended Citation

Dunn, Brian and Evelein, Dr. Johannes (2013) "BOUND POETS: THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY ON GERMAN POETS OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 856.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/856