The medieval and early modern images in the textual evidence of the Fuchs epic are documented in this work and contextualized in terms of art history. The focus is on the historical context of the illustrative fox depictions in Europe from the beginning to the 16th century. The central aspects are always the changing meanings of the images and the text, the degree of their parodying function and their iconographic connections with one another across language and time boundaries. 'Reineke Fuchs', which is designed as a parody of social conditions but also of literary motifs, has to deliver images that are parodies of other types of images. Therefore, another goal is to search for the iconographic reference points for the image parody. All of this is discussed in the text part (Volume 1). The basis of the investigation lies in the catalog section (Volume 2). Here the image witnesses are arranged chronologically and described. - [Publisher]

Language: German

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