Visual culture and the German Middle ages / Kathryn Starkey -- Word and image as a field of research : sound methodologies or just a fashionable trend? A polemic from a European perspective / Norbert H. Ott -- Writing-speech-image : the competition of signs / Jan-Dirk Mùˆller -- The shield as a poetic screen : early blazon and the visualization of medieval German literature / Haiko Wandhoff -- Written communications in the illustrated epic poem / Ulrich Ernst -- The fluid text : observations on the history of transmission and textual criticism of the thirteenth-century courtly epic / Joachim Bumke -- Images at the interface : orality, literacy, and the pictorialization of the Roland material / James A. Rushing, Jr. -- Visualizing performance? Music, word, and manuscript / Volker Mertens -- The "various writings of humanity" : Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingen's Liber scivias / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Scripture, vision, performance : visionary texts and medieval religious drama / Niklaus Largier -- The Logos in the press : Christ in the wine-press and the discovery of printing / Horst Wenzel -- From the word of God to the emblem / Thomas Cramer