The study of Middle High German literature is built on a small number of standard editions — Karl Bartsch's and the Altdeutsche Textbibliothek series among them — revised again and again by later editors, so the edition and reviser matter as much as the text.
Older German monographs and series volumes from university presses are the core of any working library, and many are available only second-hand.
Where to start
Das Nibelungenlied — ed. Karl Bartsch, rev. Helmut de Boor. The standard student edition of the epic, in continuous revision.
Kudrun (in stock) — ed. Karl Bartsch, rev. Karl Stackmann, 1865. The other great heroic epic, in Bartsch's edition.
Parzival — Wolfram von Eschenbach, c. 1210. The grail romance, essential in any edition.
Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik — Hermann Paul, 1881. The grammar every student of the language uses.
Books on Medieval German Literature in stock (8)
The knowledge of childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 1995 by James A. Schultz Jr. — $10.85 A scholarly study of how childhood was understood and represented in German literature of the Middle Ages, 1100-1350, written by James A. Schultz and published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1995 in its…
The Book of Reykjahólar by Marianne E. Kalinke — $5.44 A scholarly study of the Book of Reykjahólar (Reykjahólabók), an Icelandic legendary produced on the eve of the Reformation, by Marianne E. Kalinke, published by University of Toronto Press in 1996.
Kudrun by Karl Bartsch, Karl Stackmann, eds. — $13.30 An edition of the medieval German epic Kudrun, edited by Karl Bartsch and revised by Karl Stackmann, published by F. A. Brockhaus in 1965 in the Deutsche Klassiker des Mittelalters series.
Das Publikum Der Mittelhochdeutschen Dichtung by Werner Fechter — $14.25 A scholarly study in German of the audience for Middle High German poetry by Werner Fechter, published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in 1966.
Honor in German Literature by George Fenwick Jones — $18.05 A study of the theme of honor in German literary history by George Fenwick Jones, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1959.
The Metrics of the Middle High German Golden Age In Outlines 5th by Siegfried Beyschlag — $8.55 A German-language work by Siegfried Beyschlag, Die Metrik der mittelhochdeutschen Bluetezeit in Grundzuegen (5th edition), an outline of the verse forms and metrics of the Middle High German classical period around 1200.
Middle High German Grammar by H. Paul & L.E. Schmitt — $8.88 Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (Middle High German Grammar) by Hermann Paul, revised by L. E. Schmitt, in a German-language edition of 1950.
Handbuch Frauenlob by Claudia Lauer — $10.45 Handbuch Frauenlob, edited by Claudia Lauer and Uta Störmer-Caysa and published by Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, in 2018.