This volume brings together selected writings by Udo Friedrich that stimulated three paradigm shifts in medieval studies: the reevaluation of the potential of rhetorical argumentation structures in the analysis of short narratives, a new cultural studies perspective on the intersections between concepts of nature and culture, and an anthropologically oriented narrative theory that examines the cultural archive by looking at its narratives.

Andreas Hammer, Univ. Konstanz; Michael Schwarzbach-Dobson, Univ. of Cologne, Christiane Witthöft, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.