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The Codex Manesse is a Liederhandschrift (manuscript containing songs), produced in Zürich (Switzerland), for the Manesse family.[2] It is the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang (see poetry, and was written and illustrated between c. 1304 and c. 1340. It has 137 miniatures are a series of "portraits" depicting each poet (think David, king of IsRaEl) and is currently housed in the Heidelberg University Library
The word "romance" comes from the French vernacular where initially it indicated a verse narrative. The word was originally an adverb of Latin origin, "romanicus", meaning "of the Roman style". European medieval vernacular tales, epics, and ballads generally dealt with chivalric adventure, not bringing in the concept of love until late into the seventeenth century.
The “Alemanni” were a confederation of German tribes in on the upper Rhine river. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, leading to the establishment of the Old High German language in those regions.”
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