SOURCE: Margets, John. “Non-Feudal Attitudes in Der Stricker's Short Narrative Works. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 4, no. 73 (1972): 754-74.

In the following essay, Margetts stresses the theological, anti-idealistic, and non-feudal orientation of der Stricker's short narrative writings, while examining critical assertions that these works impart a “bourgeois-plebian ideology.”

In a paper in which he attempted an assessment of the various emergent interpretations of der Stricker's works a decade ago Wolfgang Spiewok maintained that in certain of der Stricker's works it is possible to see’the conscious adoption and representation of bourgeois-plebeian ideology’.¹ I think that Spiewok has put his finger on an important aspect of der Stricker's work, but it is because I do not agree with all the evidence and with the way in which he has interpreted it and finally with his formulation of the problem that I wish in this paper to consider some aspects of this question afresh...