Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

This is the first English translation of Theuerdank which makes the volume useful and more accessible to a much larger audience.

Accompanied by over 100 woodcut images, students are able to more fully comprehend how this text would have been understood to its original sixteenth-century audience.

With the inclusion of an introductory essay, chronology, genealogical tables, maps, translator’s note, and discussion questions, the volume is a useful resource for discussion and prompts students to think about European soceity and culture more broadly during the sixteenth century.