Chiara Benati
Chiara Benati is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa, Italy. She has published essays on the Middle Low German influence of the phraseology of the oldest Swedish written sources, and on the Middle High German Dietrich epic and its reception in Scandinavia. Her current research interests include Middle High German literature, Middle Low German-Scandinavian language contact, and Faroese language and literature, as well as earliest (Low) German surgical treatises...See more
Chiara Benati is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa, Italy. She has published essays on the Middle Low German influence of the phraseology of the oldest Swedish written sources, and on the Middle High German Dietrich epic and its reception in Scandinavia. Her current research interests include Middle High German literature, Middle Low German-Scandinavian language contact, and Faroese language and literature, as well as earliest (Low) German surgical treatises and their specialized terminology. This analysis of German vernacular surgical sources has also resulted in an interest in charms and blessings, which are often included in medical compendia.Claudia Handl is Full Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa, Italy. She is author of more than 150 publications on the beginning of German written culture, Middle High and Low German literature, the interrelations between text and image, contemporary rewritings of medieval literature. Her current research interests include Germanic legal texts, the interrelations between history and literature in medieval English and German texts, and the Germanic heroic tradition. See less
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