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Friedrich von Hausen's poems are printed in F.H. von der Hagen's "Minnesinger"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The Minnesinger abandoned his poor woman to suicide.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Perhaps the best German literature before Lessing, worth remembering, was the songs of the Minnesinger.
The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle
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It began with that almost superstitious reverence for woman, which had borrowed its religion from the Teuton, its romance from the Minnesinger and the
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Minnesinger _of any age_ ever knew -- dreams the more delightful because they will not fade away with the mists of morning, but be fulfilled in clear sunlight, line by line, before man.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The stately Greek measures now give way to the love-songs of Chivalry and Romance -- to the measures of the Minnesinger and the Troubadour.
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Heinrich von Meissen, a Minnesinger, is represented in an old manuscript directing a group of musicians with stick in hand.
Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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Suso is called by Wackernagel and others a "Minnesinger in prose and in the spiritual order."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Tannhäuser was a Minnesinger of the thirteenth century, who seems to have led a roving life, in the course of which he experienced many changes of fortune.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Gottfried of Strassburg, the Minnesinger, might be included, and some of the finest English poetry was written by unknown geniuses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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