Wolfram von Eschenbach is considered the most significant poet of Middle High German classicism. At the center of the verse novel Willehalm is the struggle of a Christian margrave for his land and his wife against the Saracens. With a revolutionary technique of dual perspective that keeps in view the rights and sufferings of both sides, the Christians and the pagans, this linguistically powerful and richly imagined epic stands in stark contrast to the aggressive crusade ideology of the Middle Ages, making it one of the great documents of enlightenment and humanity.