University of Toronto
For my dissertation, I am working on the German ‘Heldenbuch’ (Book of Heroes) prints and their manuscript predecessors from the 15th and 16th centuries. They continue a literary tradition that has its earliest roots in oral storytelling from the Early Middle Ages, and these roots are reflected both in the archaic form and the contents of the ‘Heldenbuch’ texts. In consequence, they provide rich material for questions concerning transmission and canon formation, the dissemination of printed literature in Early Modern Germany, the aesthetics of reception, and the materiality of texts.