"Minnesinger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... banquets in Plato's time was that of Greek girl flute players and harpers. Early in the Middle Ages the banquet music consisted of any collection of instruments that chanced to be at hand. In an ancient manuscript in the National Library of Paris there is a picture of Heinrich of Meissen, the minnesinger (born 1260), conducting a choir of singers and instrumental performers. The instruments are viols and wooden wind instruments of the schalmei family. A bas relief in the church of St. Gregory at Boscherville in Normandy shows an orchestra of several players. This relief is of the twelfth ...
— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson
... window; but the rain was now pouring down in torrents, and he could discern nothing but the lightning. Humbert was a favorite with the Lord of Hers. He played upon the harp with more than common skill, and could personate the regular minnesinger to perfection. His stock of ballads was inexhaustible, and some of his original songs might well compare with his borrowed lore. Besides this, he was a daring huntsman, an expert falconer, and ...
— The Truce of God - A Tale of the Eleventh Century • George Henry Miles
... and Bhme, I, 40. The Venus of the folk-song represents the German Frau Holde, a love-goddess who holds her court in a mountain and infatuates men to the peril of their souls. Just how and when the saga attached itself to the historical minnesinger Tannhuser is not known. Urban IV, referred to in the last stanza, was pope from 1261 to 1265. 43: A form of the old negative particle; en nit nicht. 44: Jemands ... Ihr, 'any one but you.' 45: Bleiben. 46: Equivalent to gleichgltig. ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... we find quite a different form of story. This is a legend written down by one of the old German Minnesinger and called, "Der arme Heinrich" (Unhappy Henry). The American poet has faithfully followed the outlines of the story, but has added a good deal to it, including the appearance of Lucifer with his train of evil spirits, and his attempts ...
— The Children's Longfellow - Told in Prose • Doris Hayman
... extending the benefits of a crusade to Christians fighting against Christians, he handed on a precedent which was soon fatally abused by his successors. In crushing out the young national life of Southern France the papacy again set a people against itself. The denunciations of the German Minnesinger were reechoed in the complaints of the last of the Troubadours. Rome had ceased to do harm to Turks and Saracens, but had stirred up Christians to war against fellow-Christians. God and his saints abandon the greedy, the strife-loving, the unjust worldly Church. The picture ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various |
