{"id":898,"date":"2012-10-04T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:51:26","slug":"erhard-wameshafft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Erhard Wameshafft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Erhard Wameshafft (or Waneshafft, as he is sometimes spelled) is again, possibly, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aptronym\">aptronym<\/a>, an &#8216;Erhard\u2018 who is hoping against hope in matters of love. We find the name in the text, the &#8216;I\u2018 is adressed by one of the allegorical <a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?page_id=1147\">(?)<\/a> ladies surrounding Lady Love. But this Wameshafft has more to tell about the production of his text:<br \/>\n<em>Here now end the words which I, the dumb Wameshafft, did produce from meager mastery, at K\u00f6nigstein. I was four weeks so ill that I could not roam the lands. While I was ill, I made this new poem and I gave it as a gift to my graceful young lady, that God might remember the Lord and guide his noble son, because they did many good deeds and gave away food and drink willingly; God will reward the virtuous<\/em>.<br \/>\n(View the <a title=\"Wameshafft (MHG Original)\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=903\">original MHG text<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The unnamed lady could have been Anna, daughter of Count Eberhard III. of Eppstein-K\u00f6nigstein. We have only one other attested work by Wameshafft, which was commissioned by the counts of Katzenellnbogen, also from the same middle-rhenisch region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the end of the text by Erhard Wameshafft, we find a short riddle. Interested in some medieval <a title=\"A MHG Riddle\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=911\">mental exercise<\/a>?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Learn more about the other author, <a title=\"Hermann von Sachsenheim\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=894\">Hermann von Sachsenheim<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>Or go directly to the conclusions one can draw from <a title=\"What the Names Tell Us\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=907\">the names in this manuscript<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erhard Wameshafft (or Waneshafft, as he is sometimes spelled) is again, possibly, an aptronym, an &#8216;Erhard\u2018 who is hoping against hope in matters of love. We find the name in the text, the &#8216;I\u2018 is adressed by one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}