Jonathan Martin
Associate Professor of German
Office
STV Stevenson Hall
Office Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3pm
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
GER 116.001 Second-Year German (Part II)
GER 285.001 Topics in German Language, Literature, and Culture
Teaching Interests & Areas
Communicative approaches to language learning
Research Interests & Areas
Law and Literature; love and marriage; German minorities in Central Europe
Ph D German
Princeton University
MA
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Germany
BA German; Classical Languages and Literatures; Medieval Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Book Review
Fortunatus. Eine dichte Beschreibung. Von Christian Kiening. Zürich: Chronos, 2021. 300 Seiten + 54 s/w und 2 farbige Abbildungen. €28,00 Narrative Mikroökonomien der frühen Neuzeit. Am Beispiel von Wickrams Rollwagenbüchlein. Von Christian Kiening und Hannes Koller. Zürich: Chronos, 2021. 112 Seiten. €15,00
Jonathan Martin.
(2024), 116, 150-154, 10.3368/m.116.1.150, Monatshefte
annegret oehme, The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations. Explorations in Medieval Culture Vol. 17. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. viii, 189. isbn: 978–90–04–42547–7. $149
Jonathan Martin.
(2024), 34, 104-105, Arthuriana
[Review of] Claudia Lauer, Die Kunst der Intrige: Studien zur höfischen Epik des 12. Jahrhunderts. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020
Jonathan Seelye Martin.
(2022), 121, 390-391, Journal of English and Germanic Studies
[Review of] Cordula Kropik, Gemachte Welten: Form und Sinn im höfischen Roman. Tübingen: Francke Narr Attempto, 2019
Jonathan S Martin.
(2021), 143, 473-477, 10.1515/bgsl-2021-0035, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB)
Book, Authored
By Consent Alone: Marriage Law and German Romance, 1186-1210
Jonathan Seelye Martin.
(2025), 260, University of Toronto Press
Book, Chapter
The Ethics of Arthurian Marriage: Husband vs Wife in Hartmann von Aue's "Iwein"
Jonathan Martin.
(2023), 65-84, Ethics in Arthurian Legend, D. S. Brewer
Rape, the Pastourelle, and the Female Voice in CB 185 (Ich was ein chint so wolgetan)
Jonathan Martin.
(2020), Revisiting the Codex Buranus: Contents, Contexts, Composition, Boydell & Brewer
Journal Article
Unequal Equality: Sex, Adultery, and Female Domination in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec
Jonathan Seelye Martin.
Neophilologus An International Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature, 108 (4), 607–623, (2024), 0.1007/s11061-024-09821-z
Chivalric Adventure (Âventiure) as Resistance to the Law
Jonathan Seelye Martin.
Arthuriana, 32 (2), 42-65, (2022)
The Marriage of Tristan and Isolde: Love, Marriage, and Adultery in Eilhart von Oberg’s Tristrant (before 1190)
Jonathan S Martin.
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 57 (1), 1-21, (2021), 10.3138/seminar.57.1.1
The Problem of Concubinage and Clandestine Marriage in Herbort von Fritzlar’s Liet von Troye.
Jonathan Seelye Martin.
Euphorion: Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, 114, 1-29, (2020)
Der Körper der Königin. Zum Verständnis der Dido-Figur in Heinrichs von Veldeke ‘Eneasroman’
Jonathan Martin.
Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 137 (1), 1-25, (2018)
Monopolizing Violence: Gewalt, Self-Control, and the Law in Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneasroman.
Jonathan Martin.
The German Quarterly, 91 (1), 18-33, (2018)
Criminal Intent in the Eckenlied: rêroup, fama, and Narration
Jonathan Martin.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 116 (2), 195-222, (2017)
Presentations
How Rash is the Rash Boon?
Jonathan Martin
12th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis, MO, June 10, 2025
“Who Would Win in a Fight? The Battles of Dietrich von Bern and Siegfried in Germanic Heroic Legend.”
Jonathan Martin
Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, January 10, 2025
Quid Arturus cum Theoderico? King Arthur and Germanic Heroic Legend in the Old Norse Þiðreks saga (c. 1250)
Jonathan Martin
XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 13, 2024
German Heroes? The Question of Ethnicity and German Heroic Poetry
Jonathan Seelye Martin
59th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2024
Re-Telling the Heroic Tradition: The Many Deaths of Attila’s Sons in Germanic Heroic Tradition
Jonathan Martin
Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 6, 2024
Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneasroman as a Translatio imperii and a Translatio curialitatis
Jonathan Seelye Martin
59th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 13, 2023
Picturing the Heroic in the Fifteenth Century
Jonathan Martin
46th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX, September 17, 2022
Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Sigune as Answer to Hartmann von Aue’s Enite and Laudine.
Jonathan Martin
9th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis, MO, June 22, 2022
How Germanic is Germanic Heroic Legend?
Jonathan Seelye Martin
58th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 12, 2022
Enite and Jeschute: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Response to Hartmann von Aue’s Portrayal of Spousal Abuse
Jonathan S Martin
German Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolos, October 2, 2021
Marriage in Wolfram’s Parzival: The Case of Belakane and Gahmuret
Jonathan S Martin
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Online, May 13, 2021
The Marriage of Tristan and Isolde: An Examination of Legal Ritual in Eilhart von Oberg's Tristrant
Jonathan Seelye Martin
43rd Annual German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR, October 3, 2019
The Power of Consent in Medieval Romance and Law
Jonathan Martin
43rd Annual German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR, October 3, 2019
Divorce, Arthurian Style: Love, Marriage, and Law in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein
Jonathan Seelye Martin
7th Annual Symposium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis, MO, June 17, 2019
Unequal Equality: Erec as Head of his Wife in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec.
Jonathan Martin
54th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2019