Ekkehard (Annotated)

Ekkehard is a richly textured historical novel set in tenth-century Swabia, moving between the monastic learning of St. Gall and the worldly court of Duchess Hadwig at Hohentwiel. Scheffel blends romance, antiquarian detail, comedy, and heroic episode, including the threat of Magyar incursions, to evoke the tensions between cloister and court, scholarship and desire, Latin culture and Germanic vit...