Minnebrief
The Minnebrief is a form of late medieval rhyming speech. Similar to the Salut d'amour in old Provencal minnesang , it is a love letter designed in pairs of rhymes , which is addressed directly to the partner. However, it does not initially appear as an independent genus .
The knowledge of the brieve and schanzune tihten (“to write Minnelieder in the form of letters”) belonged to the idealized courtly education of the High Middle Ages . The love letter as a song form is older, however. As early as the Carolingian era , the capitularies had forbidden nuns to send letters with a rhyming song - the so-called Winileod .
The Minnebrief first appeared as a narrative element in the Middle Latin verse of the 11th century , e.g. B. in Ruodlieb . In the 12th century who took German seal it up, first in Spielmann seals as King Rother , then by Eneit Henry of Veldeke the courtly epic . After 1200 he will u. a. taken up in Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival . The surviving corpse of Ulrich von Gutenburg begins as a Minnebrief, an exchange of letters is contained in the Minnelehre Johann von Konstanz .
It was not until the 14th century that the Minnebrief became an independent genre, for example with Hugo von Montfort . From that time on, letter holders for model love letters began to develop, which also go back to the booklets of the 12th century. Ulrichs von Liechtenstein Frauendienst contains a special form of the Minnebrief .
swell
- ↑ Gottfried von Strasbourg : Tristan . Verse 8139
literature
Ernst Meyer: The rhyming love letters of the German Middle Ages . (Dissertation) Marburg 1898