Albrecht Classen, editor-in-chief, recently published vol. 35 of "Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung", August 2023, with 559 pp., containing 10 articles and ca. 150 book reviews.
Albrecht Classen also recently published an article in the Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, which explores three major texts. Literature is not always a medium for pleasantries. Instead, as cultural historians often discover, it is a forum to explore tough issues, such as violence, hatred, but also love, and the search for God.
With this new book publication, "Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age", pre-modern studies establish that globalism existed already in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. Prof. Classen has edited this hefty tome based on a conference held here at the University of Arizona in April 2022.
Check out Albrecht Classen's article “Homoerotic and Homosexual Perspectives in Medieval Poetry and Verse Narratives: Indirect Evidence of a Hidden Discourse. With Emphasis on Dietrich von der Gletze and Ulrich von Liechtenstein,” as a pre-publication version at https://www.qeios.com/read/DP8TI3; Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83 (2023): 234-49.
Also check out "Medieval Literature as an Archive of Human Experiences: The Middle Ages as a Depository of Human Knowledge, Wisdom, Happiness, and Suffering,” Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 6.2 (2023), online at: https://journalofsocialsciences.org/vol6no2/medieval-literature-as-an-a…
For those who attended Prof. Classen's talk on Johannes Pauli, here is a new publication that addresses the same material but from a more philosophical perspective: “THE CONTINUITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES UNTIL TODAY: LITERARY EVIDENCE FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. JOHANNES PAULI’S SCHIMPF UND ERNST (1522)”, published in Sankalp Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies(SJMS)
The new issue of Trans-Lit2 recently appeared in print; there are prose texts, poems, and reviews (all in German). It contains a short story, poems, and a review by Dr. Classen.
A new book has been published: "TURKISH-GERMAN RELATIONS IN LITERARY HISTORY FROM THE FIFTEENTH THROUGH THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - DEUTSCH-TÜRKISCHE BEZIEHUNGEN IN DER LITERATURGESCHICHTE VOM 15. BIS ZUM 21. JAHRHUNDERT", edited by İrem Atasoy, Barış Konukman, and Albrecht Classen.
Prof. Albrecht Classen has published his eleventh volume of poetry (his second volume of haiku), this one also in English: Deep Words and Epiphanies: Haikus and Word Magic (Hamburg: tredition, 2023), 36 pp., ISBN 978-3-347-50236-9; https://shop.tredition.com/booktitle/Deep_Words_and_Epiphanies/W-144-047-020
Prof. Classen also has a new book out: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6144-1/ Johannes Pauli was a highly gifted preacher/storyteller, and his book, Schimpf und Ernst (1522) became an enormous bestseller over the centuries. There is a lot of wisdom in this collection, now available in English translation.
Prof. Classen has released a new article in Wirkendes Wort titled "Recht, Unrecht und das Gerichtswesen aus der Sicht eines frühneuzeitlichen Predigers. Juristische Perspektiven in Johannes Paulis Schimpf und Ernst (1522)".