''Bring ir Den Brief und Sing Ir ûf Gedoene'' : o lugar da carta na lírica alemã dos séculos XII-XIV

• Main Author: J. Carlos Teixeira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2017-08-01
• Series: CEM: Cultura, Espaço & Memória
• Subjects: Minnesang; medium -high -german; lyric; silence
• Online Access: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/16274.%20Carlos%20Teixeira.pdf

This article aims to provide insight into the epistolographical aspects of the Middle High German Minnesang, i.e. the Minnesang love lyric in connection to the love letter. The analysis is focused on songs related to ‘hohe Minne’, a higher form of love, ultimately providing a greater understanding of how social conducts became transgressive. In a tradition arising from socially established confrontations between distance/proximity and communication/no communication, the letter proves a particularly interesting motive, enabling the transgression of silence without truly transgressing it. This analysis includes poems by both canonical Minnesänger (Friedrich von Hausen and Hartmann von Aue) and non -canonical Minnesänger (Johannes Hadlaub, Der Taler and Mönch von Salzburg)