Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien mit Edition, Ubersetzung un Kommentar.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Flood, John L. | Copyright information

Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien mit Edition, Ubersetzung und Kommentar. By GERNOT MICHAEL MULLER. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 67) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2001. xviii+536 pp. 108 [euro]. ISBN 3-494-36567-6 (hbk).

Though largely forgotten today, Conrad Celtis (1459-1508) was a figure of seminal importance in the German literary world five centuries ago. The first German to be crowned imperial poet laureate (by Frederick III in 1487), and later dubbed the 'German arch-human...