David Arthur WELLS
Geb. 1941, Professor, London, Großbritannien/Nordirland
Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet)
- Medieval literature and language (Lehrgebiet)
Anschrift: University of London, Birkbeck College - Department of German, Birkbeck College, University of London - 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Medieval literature, thought and iconography
Monographien in Auswahl:
- The Vorau Moses and Balaam (1970)
- Concordances to the Early Middle High German Biblical Epic: the 'Vorauer Bücher Moses' (1975)
- The Wild Man from the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' to Hartmann von Aue's 'Iwein'(1975)
- The Central Franconian Rhyming Bible ("Mittelfränkische Reimbibel"): An Early Twelfth-Century German Verse Homiliary. A Thematic and Exegetical Commentary. With the Text and a Translation into English (2004).
Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:
- Der Vorauer Moses und die Auslegung des Himmlischen Jerusalem (ZDA 1969)
- Source and Tradition in the Moriaen, in European Context (ed. P.K. King et al. 1971)
- The Middle Dutch Moriaen, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, and Medieval Tradition (Studia Neerlandica 1971)
- Die Erläuterung frühmittelhochdeutscher geistlicher Texte: Probleme und Methoden, in Studien zur frühmittelhochdeutschen Literatur (ed. L.P. Johnson et al. 1974)
- Imperial Sanctity and Political Reality: Bible, Liturgy and the Ambivalence of Symbol in Walther von der Vogelweide's Songs under Otto IV (Speculum 1978)
- Letters of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Berlioz in Belfast (Music and Letters 1979)
- Die Ikonographie von Daniel IV und der Wahnsinn des Löwenritters (Fest. John Asher 1981)
- The Medieval Nebuchadnezzar. The Exegetical Tradition of Daniel IV and its Significance for the Ywain Romances and for German Vernacular Literature (FmSt 1982)
- Problems of Access to Literature in German in Relation to Research and Bibliography, in German Studies: British Resources (ed. D. Paisey 1986)
- Gesture in Hartmann's Gregorius, in Hartmann von Aue: Changing Perspectives (ed. T.D. McFarland et al. 1988)
- Die biblischen Wörter im mittellateinischen Unibos-Gedicht, in Kleinere Erzählformen im Mittelalter (ed. K. Grubmüller et al. 1988)
- Carolingian Tradition in the Central Franconian Rhyming Bible, in 'Mit regulu bithuungan' (ed. J.L. Flood et al. 1989)
- Susanna and Nebuchadnezzar. The Susanna Fragment of the Central Franconian Rhyming Bible (MLR 1989)
- Die Apostelverzeichnisse und die Fata Apostolorum in frühmittelhochdeutscher Literatur und Predigt (ZDA 1991)
- Die Allegorie als Interpretationsmittel mittelalterlicher Texte, in Bildhafte Rede in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit (ed. W. Harms et al. 1992)
- Attitudes to the Jews in Early Middle High German Religious Literature and Sermon (LGS IV 1992)
- Approaches to the Commentary Form in Medieval Studies (Editio 1993)
- The Journeys of the Apostles in the German Premendicant Sermons: On the Feast of the Separation of the Apostles, in German Narrative Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (ed. V. Honemann et al. 1994)
- Fatherly Advice. The Precepts of Gregorius, Marke, and Gurnemanz and the School Tradition of the Disticha Catonis (FmSt 1994)
- The Procession of Apostles in the German Last Judgement Plays (ABäG 1996)
- Religious Disputation Literature and the Theology of Willehalm. An Aspect of Wolfram's Education, in Wolfram's Willehalm. Fifteen Essays, ed. M.H. Jones and T. McFarland (2000)
- The Medieval Religious Disputation and the Theology of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm (Studi Medievali 2000)
- Christliche Apologetik, die mittelhochdeutsche Silvesterlegende, Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm, und die Toleranz gegenüber Andersgläubigen im Mittelalter (Mediaevistik 2001)
- annual bibliographical research reports on medieval German literature (The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 1968-2000).
Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:
- The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 1975-2004
- Annual Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association 1969-2001
- various publications for MHRA including The Eadwine Psalter (1992).
Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :
- Honorary Secretary, Modern Humanities Research Association 1969-2001
- Honorary Treasurer, MHRA 2001-
- Secretary-General, International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) 1981-2005
Letzte Aktualisierung: Fri Sep 3 15:01:20 2004
Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab)