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    Chapbook (redirect from Volksbuch)
    that was usually reserved as a wrapping for sugar. Chapbooks are called Volksbuch 'people's book' in German, and as pliegos sueltos 'loose sheets' in Spanish...
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  • The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are a topic in German Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition corresponding to the Wise Men of Gotham in English-language...
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    century, from ca. 1580, i.e. the same period of the development of the Volksbuch tradition. The Höllenzwang text is also extant in manuscript versions...
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    corresponding French and German terms are bibliothèque bleue (blue book) and Volksbuch, respectively. The principal historical subject matter of chapbooks was...
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    According to his autobiography, he was inspired by finding the story in "a Volksbuch (popular book) about the Venusberg", which he said "fell into his hands"...
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    teufel: dasz er kein mensch möchte sein, sondern ein leibhaftiger teufel. volksbuch von dr. Faust […] der auch blosz der leibhaftige heiszt, so in Tirol....
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    Retrieved 13 November 2021. Nissen, Cristina (2013). Das Nibelungenlied als Volksbuch: Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen und der moderne Mythos des ?Nibelungenliedes...
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    the trappings of Grand Opera, his attention was soon distracted by a Volksbuch that he obtained through his friendship with the philologist Samuel Lehrs...
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    Hans Folz and Sebastian Brant (Ship of Fools, 1494), among others. The Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition which would flourish in the 16th century also finds...
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    of the church in the Apostolic age], 1854. Doktor Martin Luther, ein Volksbuch (188l). Hans Hinrich Studt published his autobiography in 1891 (2 volumes);...
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