Revisiting the Codex Buranus

<p>The Codex Buranus compiled in all likelihood in South Tyrol in the first half of the thirteenth century has fascinated modern scholars and performers ever since its rediscovery in 1803. Its diverse range of texts (some famously featuring in Carl Orff's <em>Carmina Burana</em>) and music gives testimony to the intensely vibrant plurilingual and multicultural milieu in which the Codex Buranus was compiled but poses a challenge to modern users. Perhaps more so than many other medieval manuscripts it is an artefact which demands and benefits from an interdisciplinary approach.<br />The chapters here from scholars in a variety of fields enable the less well-known aspects of the Codex Buranus; textual musical and artistic; to receive greater scrutiny and bring new perspectives to bear on the more thoroughly explored parts of the manuscript. Making accessible existing discourse and encouraging fresh debates on the codex the essays advocate fresh modes of engagement with its contents contexts and composition. They also examine questions of its reception history and audience.<br /><br />TRISTAN E. FRANKLINOS is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College Oxford. HENRY HOPE has taught at the universities of Oxford and Bern; his research centres on the musical aspects of Minnesang.<br /><br />Contributors: Gundela Bobeth Charles E. Brewer Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann Albrecht Classen Johann Drumbl Tristan E. Franklinos Peter Godman Henry Hope Racha Kirakosian Heike Sigrid Lammers-Harlander Jonathan Seelye Martin Michael Stolz David A. Traill Kirsten Yri.</p>