The medieval German Literature of South Bohemia as Part of a trilingual Literary Landscape (Middle of the 13th Century until the Beginning of the 15th Century)

This contribution is a short sketch of the Middle Ages literature written and read in South Bohemia from 13th -15th century. Beside the literature written in Latin it was mainly German literature influenced this period and was a result of the tight connections between the regions clergy and nobility with Austria and Germany. The most important court in order to this was the one of von Neuhaus. After Prague it was the second centre for secular literature in Bohemia. Besides this a rich heritage of literary culture was also created in Hohenfurt/Vyssi Brod and Krumau/Krumlov. In all of them a range of worth mentioning manuscripts was written. In Ceske Budejovice/Budweis there exists just one traditional manuscript from the beginning of the 15th century. In matters of quantity as well as in quality the region of South Bohemia created a remarkable scale of mediaevel literature.