Ziegler touches on topics that are of broad interest to students of every epoch and has gone to extra-ordinary lengths to make this volume accessible to those well outside the field of German Studies. (The appendices ... include plot summaries and/or translations of all of the major works treated.) Yet, she includes a good deal of often overlooked material and provides new insights that make this volume of interest to specialists in the field as well. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW ...an indispensable tool for literary, historical, and legal scholars. Ziegler handles a wide range of literary and historical sources deftly, carefully framing them with a cogent discussion of medieval jurisprudence. GERMAN QUARTERLY Vickie Ziegler has opened the door to the world of jurisprudence inherent in medieval thought and literature which has been left relatively unexamined until now. The book traces historical changes in legal thought and practice and their literary transformation into different genres. ... (Her) study provides an excellent example of each poet's selective use of historically accurate framework in the service of literary goals. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW A welcome addition to monographs with a triple focus on medieval literature, history and legal theory and practice. SPECULUM, April 2006 The careful and thorough examination of descriptions of trials endured by historical and literary heroes and heroines, the analysis of the function of the ordeals in their literary context, and especially the comparison of the episodes yield perspectives worthy of continued investigation by Germanists. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
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