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This chapter illustrates this theory of repression and displacement through close readings of two twelfth-century works by the Middle High German writer Hartmann von Aue. The first text to be analyzed is “Poor Lord Henry” in which the spectral Jew becomes the object of the story’s sublimated violence. The second text addresses the Arthurian romance “Erec” based on the French original by Chretien de Troyes. Here, the hero’s wife becomes the object of male violence. Although both stories end on a note of peaceful resolution, I argue that these endings merely block the aggression of the knightly heroes toward vulnerable minorities.

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Bad Blood: The Spectral Jew, the Transgressive Woman, and Mimetic Rivalry in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich and Erec

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    2025年

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  • Alfred Thomas

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This chapter illustrates this theory of repression and displacement through close readings of two twelfth-century works by the Middle High German writer Hartmann von Aue. The first text to be analyzed is “Poor Lord Henry” in which the spectral Jew becomes the object of the story’s sublimated violence. The second text addresses the Arthurian romance “Erec” based on the French original by Chretien de Troyes. Here, the hero’s wife becomes the object of male violence. Although both stories end on a note of peaceful resolution, I argue that these endings merely block the aggression of the knightly heroes toward vulnerable minorities.