What is it about?
Straddling the traditional border between Old and Middle High German (circa 1170), Heinrich von Veldeke employs fifty-five different alliterating word-pairs on eighty occasions. Many of them are still in use today, others he apparently coined.
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Why is it important?
First time comprehensive look at this noteworthy rhetorical tool, the study continues a project encompassing all German literature up to circa 1210.
Perspectives
Adds to our understanding of Medieval rhetoric.
Dr. John M. Jeep
Miami University
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This page is a summary of: Heinrich von Veldeke's and the Tradition of the Alliterating Word-Pair, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, March 2010, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18756719-066001008.
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