Things I’ve been Reading the Past Decade to Prepare for a Trip to Germany (Part I)

Things I’ve been Reading the Past Decade
to Prepare for Writing a Novel about a Trip to Germany (Part I)

Read Part II here.

Germany before Goethe and Schiller:

• Julius Gaius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War (58–50 BC)
• Tacitus, Agricola and Germania (98 AD)
• Jordanes, History of the Goths (551 AD)
• Anonymous, The Book of Settlements (Landnámabók) (~800–900 AD)
• Anonymous, The Poetic Edda (~1200 AD)
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival (~1200)
• Anonymous, The Song of the Nibelungen (Nibelungenlied) (~1300)
• Johannes von Tepl, The Ploughman and Death (Der Ackermann und der Tod) (1401)
• Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff) (1494)
• Conrad Celtis, Poems (~1490–1500)
• Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509)
• Thomas Müntzer, Various Works (1520s)
• Martin Luther, The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars (Liber Vagatorum)(1509)
  • –––––.To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (An Den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation) (1520)
• Sebastian Lotzer, The Twelve Articles of Peasantry (Das Zwölf Artikel Gehören Zu Den Forderungen) (1525)
• Gottfried Leibniz, Shorter Works and Political Writings (1680–1715)
• Immanuel Kant, Dreams of a Spirit-Seeker (Träume Eines Geistersehers) (1766)
  • –––––.Perpetual Peace (Zum Ewigen Frieden) (1795)
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti comte de Mirabeau, Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg (1787)
• Georg Lichtenberg, Aphorisms (~1750s–1800)
• The Brothers Grimm, Children’s Stories and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)(1812)

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• George Madison Priest, The Classical Period of German Literature (1941)
• Ernst Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter) (1948)
• J.Knight Bostock, A Handbook on Old High German Literature (1955)
• Richard Marius, Luther (1974)

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