sine mugens nicht erdenken: wand ez kan vor in wenken rechte alsam ein schellec hase : Women’s German Medieval-Arthurian Scholarship

This article offers a survey of German Medieval Studies as a discipline, focusing on three generations of women’s German Medieval-Arthurian scholarship. This scholarship demonstrates a breadth of discipline that might be perceived as unusual in contrast to Anglophone or Francophone Arthurian scholarship; this breadth is however characteristic of scholarship in German Medieval Studies. The authors analyse significant publications and female scholars within German Medieval Studies to shed a light on research areas, institutional developments as well as key figures that have emerged in German Arthurian scholarship over the last half-century. The authors conclude not only that the practice of truly interdisciplinary research has become a hallmark of today’s female scholarship, but also that new spaces have been created (and continue to emerge) for women to write, publish and teach in German Medieval-Arthurian scholarship.