Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Textual Studies: Iconographical Approaches: 1. The gothic image of Christ. The sources of medieval representations of the crucifixion; 2. Exegesis and imagination. A contribution to the study of Rupert of Deutz; 3. Trinitas creator: word and image; 4. Justus Lipsius' De Cruce libri tres (1593), or the historian's dilemma; 5. Goethe's 'Alexis und Dora' (1796). An interpretation; Part II. Textual Studies: Historiographical Approaches: 6. Notes on Fate and Fortune; 7. The 'fortune' of Hartmann's Erec; 8. Historical thought and moral codes in medieval epic; 9. The Western image of Byzantium in the Middle Ages; 10. Economies of history. What is fiction? Part III. Syllabus Studies; 11. On coming to terms with Curtius; 12. University German and the syllabus of studies; Notes; Publications of F. P. Pickering.

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This 1980 book contains a selection of twelve essays spanning the period 1953–77, three of which are translated.