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Title: Lays of the Minnesingers or German troubadours of the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries illustrated by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe: with historical and critical notices, and engravings from the MS. of the Minnesingers in the King's Library at Paris, and from other sources
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: (Taylor, Edgar)
Subjects: Minnesingers
Publisher: London, Longman
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e, or derived, as some think, from a familywho had a castle so called in the Thurgau) oughtchronologically to have taken his place long ago, hiscourse being from about 1190 to 1240 : but it wasthought better to postpone the notice of his works, forthe purpose of entering a little more fully into theparticulars of the life and writings of this celebratedman. No poet of the middle ages has left us more of hiscountrys cotemporaneous history impressed upon hisworks; and a short notice of them (in which a volumeby Ludwig Uhland, published at Stuttgart in 1822,will be our principal guide,) may perhaps be interest-ing, as well on that account as because it will presentan outline of the life and character of one of the chival-ric curiosities with which this singular age abounded.The period of his life, at any rate, embraces a con-siderable field of interest; as it includes the intestinedivisions of the Empire after the death of Henry VI.,the wars between Philip and Otho, the eventful reign il
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HERWAI-THJERTO:^ IKBR V0GE)LW)EI3))E. WALTER VOGELWEIDE. 197 of Frederic II., the struggles with the papal power,and the crusades. We find the poet first in Austria :— Ze Oesterrich lernde ich singen und sagen :In Austria did I learn to sing and say. His career seems to have begun there under Fre-deric (the son of Leopold VI.), who went to the cru-sade in 1197, and died in Palestine in the followingyear. His death is mentioned as the subject of greatgrief to the poet, who must have been then veryyoung. In 1198 began the dissensions as to the successionto the Imperial crown ; and Walter attached himselfto Phihp of Suabia, in opposition to the papal faction,which supported Otho. To this period applies oneof the longest of his songs, a sort of Jeremiad on thetroubles of liis country, which he opens by circum-stantially describing himself in the position in whichhe is drawn in the Manesse MS., seated upon a rock,resting one knee on the other, with the elbow restingon the uppermost, and

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