03001nam 22005413a 450 991056818590332120220603175534.03-7370-0119-7https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737001199(CKB)5860000000009263(ScCtBLL)6e7ac0b7-969d-4710-b869-974e93d9f1ca(EXLCZ)99586000000000926320220603i20122022 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConstructing Virtue and Vice : Femininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca. 1150-1300) /Olga V. Trokhimenko, Jutta Eming, Arthur GroosVolume 5[s.l.] :V&R unipress,2012.1 online resource (255 p.)Transatlantische Studien zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit/Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture3-8471-0119-6 The study examines textual representations of women's laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ecclesiastical texts, conduct literature, lyric, and sculpture. By engaging with the competing, and at times contradictory, views of female laughter, it reaffirms a disputatious nature of medieval culture, in which multiple views of femininity, sexuality, and virtue stood in a conflicting, yet productive, dialogue with one another. The society that emerges when one looks at medieval German texts is always ambivalent: it thrives on and enjoys talking about sensuality and eroticism, while being constrained by the conventions of polite behavior and the fear of sin; it relies on the ritual use of laughter, while marking it as a sign of lust and perdition. Women's laughter thus offers an important way into understanding medieval views of gender because it combines physicality with shifting and conflicting cultural norms.Transatlantische Studien zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit/Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and CultureLaughter in literatureFemininity in literatureLaughterSocial aspectsWomenConduct of lifeVirtues in literatureVice in literatureGerman literatureMiddle High German, 1050-1500Laughter in literature.Femininity in literature.LaughterSocial aspects.WomenConduct of life.Virtues in literature.Vice in literature.German literatureTrokhimenko Olga V1242290Eming JuttaGroos ArthurScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910568185903321Constructing virtue and vice2881789UNINA