Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen

…in the Middle Ages; and Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, 2 vol. (1798), a novel of artistic life in the late Middle Ages. A series of plays based on fairy tales—including Ritter Blaubart (“Bluebeard”) and Der gestiefelte Kater (“Puss in Boots”)—that parodied the rationalism of the 18th-century Enlightenment were published in Volksmärchen…