The volume brings together approximately 50 contributions from various fields of language and literary studies, particularly German studies, medieval Latin, and Romance studies, as well as history and related disciplines. A thematic guiding idea of the authors is the different connections between literature—understood in the broader sense of the term—and history. Key topics include the interactions between chronicles and literature, as well as between Latin and vernacular languages, the positioning of literature in regions or communication spaces, and the function and reception of fictional texts in non-literary contexts. The temporal scope encompasses the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.