Wege in die Geschichte durch Erzählen von Vergangenheit in der Frühen Neuzeit

The examination of historical images in selected works from the 16th century offers a fundamental insight into how the Early Modern Period related to the past, especially the High Middle Ages; it shows, among other things, the coexistence of both the continuation of tradition lines as well as deliberate breaks with tradition and the resulting 'new beginnings'. It contains the new editions of the Historia of Friedrich Barbarossa as well as of Georg Thym's didactic poem Thedel von Wallmoden, which are therefore available for the first time as basic material for further research in a critical edition, taking all the surviving prints into account.