A Companion to Gottfried Von Strassburg’s Tristan

New essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic.

Introduction: The Challenge of Gottfried's Tristan - Will HastyHumanism in the High Middle Ages: The Case of Gottfried's Tristan - Alois WolfGottfried's Strasbourg: The City and Its People - Michael S. BattsGottfried's Adaptation of the Story of Riwalin and Blanscheflur - Danielle BuschingerThis drink will be the death of you: Interpreting the Love Potion in Gottfried's Tristan - Sidney M. JohnsonGod, Religion, and Ambiguity in Tristan - Nigel HarrisThe Female Figures in Gottfried's Tristan and Isolde - Ann Marie RasmussenThe Performance of Love: Tristan and Isolde at Court - Will HastyDuplicity and Duplexity: The Isolde of the White Hands Sequence - Neil ThomasBetween Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried's Tristan - Daniel RocherHistory, Fable and Love: Gottfried, Thomas, and the Matter of Britain - Adrian StevensThe Medieval Reception of Gottfried's Tristan - Marion E. GibbsThe Modern Reception of Gottfried's Tristan and the Medieval Legend of Tristan and Isolde - Ulrich Mueller