This is a very important genre in late medieval German literature. What are they exactly?
We have chosen one example to give you a closer idea of this genre. Click here to read an excerpt (and its translation) and listen to how it might have been sounded in the 15th century
A collection of minnereden can be found for instance in Berlin, SBB-PK, Ms.germ.qu. 719 or Berlin, SBB-PK, Ms.germ.qu. 2370.