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Kirchhoff, Matthias: Feinjustiertes Selbstverständnis: Zum Druck n des ‚Lobspruchs auf Nürnberg‘ nach Serteßbalt (1490), in Kipf, Johannes Klaus and Schwarz, Jörg (Eds.): Stadtgeschichte(n): Stadt und Kultur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 21), p. 187–201. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1258.c19231

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Matthias Kirchhoff

Feinjustiertes Selbstverständnis

Zum Druck n des ‚Lobspruchs auf Nürnberg‘ nach Serteßbalt (1490)

Abstract The praise of the city (laus urbium) in the German language arose as a genre of its own in 15th-century Nuremburg. The success of this genre is due to its prospective legitimising function for the social and political aspirations of the citizens based on the description of the present. The most prominent praise of the city, Hans Rosenplüt’s ‘Lobspruch auf Nürnberg’ (1447), was adapted time and again between 1480 and 1500, so that tradition and re-actualisation were combined in the revised texts. By means of an incunabula print dating to 1490 (n), it can be shown that the adjustment of urban self-perception manifests itself not only in larger textual changes but also in philological details.

Keywords praise of the city; Nuremburg; urban self-perception; printing history