A conference to mark the publication of The Oxford Guide to Middle High German (Oxford University Press, 2019) by Howard Jones and Martin H. Jones

Friday, 21 June - Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3NA

16:30     Welcome by Henrike Lähnemann

                Nigel Palmer, Medieval German and Medieval Dutch

17:30      Presentation of The Oxford Guide to Middle High German

18:30      Drinks reception

Saturday, 22 June - 47, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF

09:30      Horst Simon, On the syntax and pragmatics of YES and NO in Middle High German

10:30     Kurt Gärtner, Normalmittelhochdeutsch

11:30     Refreshments

12:00     Nigel Harris, Teaching Middle High German Today

13:00     Lunch (own arrangements)

14:30     Sarah Bowden, The problem of Early Middle High German

15:30     Jürgen Wolf, Wie angele ich mir einen Gönner? Gönneraussagen kritisch anders gelesen …

16:30     Refreshments

17:00     Elke Brüggen, Übersetzungen sind wie Ritter: Die Schönen sind nicht treu, und die Treuen sind nicht schön (?). Zu Übersetzung und Kommentierung des ‘Parzival’ Wolframs von Eschenbach

18:00     Stephen Mossman, German Literature and Female Monasticism in the Later Middle Ages: The Dominican Nunnery of Maria Reuthin near Wildberg on the Nagold