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Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and children was a fundamental element of European society in pre-modern times.

Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to contribute to the literary discourse of their time. This book brings together representative poets from Germany, England, France, Spain, Hungary, and Austria and thus develops an innovative pan-European perspective spanning from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Well-known writers are as much included as some rather little studied individuals, who all form part of a strong choir of female voices.

Literatur Setzt sich aus vielen verschiedenen Texten zusammen – solchen, die zum Kanon gerechnet werden, und solchen, die, trotz ihres quantitativen Übergewichts, am Rande an gesiedelt sind, d.h. insbesondere Trivialliteratur, die wir gerade aus literatursoziologischer Sicht nicht ignorieren dürfen. Das Schlagwort ‚trivial‘ fällt leicht, aber es genau zu definieren erweist sich als problematisch. Gab es z.B. Trivialliteratur auch schon in der Vormoderne? Warum entstehen überhaupt triviale Texte? Welche Bedürfnisse befriedigen sie? Welche Gestaltungstechniken werden dort eingeSetzt? Was sagt die Trivialliteratur über das Lesepublikum bzw. deren Autoren aus? Diese und weitere Fragen werden von den Beiträgern zu diesem Band kritisch unter die Lupe genommen und anhand von exemplarischen Fällen sorgfältig analysiert.

Some of the articles in this volume tackle theoretical issues as illustrated by translation examples, highlighting major flaws and successes in translation practice, while other Contributors approach the phenomenon of translation from a more socio-cultural, ideologically critical angle, thus reflecting the current wide scope of theoretical and practical aspects of literary translation. The practical aspects include various kinds of literary discourses, which are analysed with a view toward gaining a good understanding of the characteristics of the literary genres involved. In sum, this volume embraces a whole range of topics that are currently discussed both in university classes as well as in most well known translation journals. The present collection of papers is a good introduction to topical work carried out in literary translation and its applications.