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Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken

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The Countess Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken (also known as Elizabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont or Isabella of Lotharingen) has long been recognized as a major contributor to fifteenth-century German literature, having published four major romances that she translated from the French originals. Even though recent scholarship has begun to question her authorship, it is certain that those texts were created either by herself or by a team of courtly scribes under her direction.

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  • Elisabeth, von Nassau-Saarbrücken. 1977. Der Roman von der Königin Sibille: in drei Prosafassungen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Mit Benutzung der nachgelassenen Materialien von Fritz Burg, ed. Hermann Tiemann, Veröffentlichungen aus der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, 10. Hamburg: Hauswedell.

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  • Burchert, Bernhard. 1987. Die Anfänge des Prosaromans in Deutschland. Die Prosaerzählungen Elisabeths von Nassau-Saarbrücken, Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe 1, 962. Frankfurt a. M./Bern/New York: Peter Lang.

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  • Classen, Albrecht. 2016. Reading medieval European women writers: Strong literary witnesses from the past. Frankfurt a. M./Bern/et al.: Peter Lang.

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  • ———. 2021. Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken. Literary encyclopedia, January 14. https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14703

  • Haubrichs, Wolfgang, Hans-Walter Herrmann, and Gerhard Sauder, eds. 2002. Zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Elisabeth von Lothringen, Gräfin von Nassau-Saarbrücken, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte und Volksforschung, 34. St. Ingbert: Universitäts-Verlag, Röhrig.

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  1. German Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Albrecht Classen

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  1. Department of English, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Michelle M. Sauer

  2. School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Diane Watt

  3. College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, Mumbles Swansea, UK

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    Natalie Grinnell

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Classen, A. (2024). Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken. In: Sauer, M.M., Watt, D., McAvoy, L.H. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_222-1

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