HAUSBUCH/HAUSBÜCHER: QUESTIONE DI NUMERO O DI ‘GENERE’? LA STRANA STORIA DI UN TIPO DI TESTO DEL MEDIOEVO TEDESCO

It presents the analysis of the principal characteristics of a German medieval book, called Hausbuch, and tries to define the existence of a literary genre. The survey starts from the example of three German texts that have benn called Hausbuecher only in the last years.