LEADER 03001nam 22005413a 450 001 9910568185903321 005 20220603175534.0 010 $a3-7370-0119-7 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.14220/9783737001199 035 $a(CKB)5860000000009263 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6e7ac0b7-969d-4710-b869-974e93d9f1ca 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000009263 100 $a20220603i20122022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aConstructing Virtue and Vice : $eFemininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca. 1150-1300) /$fOlga V. Trokhimenko, Jutta Eming, Arthur Groos$hVolume 5 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cV&R unipress,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 1 $aTransatlantische Studien zu Mittelalter und Fru?her Neuzeit/Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture 311 $a3-8471-0119-6 330 $aThe 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. 410 $aTransatlantische Studien zu Mittelalter und Fru?her Neuzeit/Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture 606 $aLaughter in literature 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aLaughter$xSocial aspects 606 $aWomen$xConduct of life 606 $aVirtues in literature 606 $aVice in literature 606 $aGerman literature$yMiddle High German, 1050-1500 615 0$aLaughter in literature. 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aLaughter$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aWomen$xConduct of life. 615 0$aVirtues in literature. 615 0$aVice in literature. 615 0$aGerman literature 700 $aTrokhimenko$b Olga V$01242290 702 $aEming$b Jutta 702 $aGroos$b Arthur 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910568185903321 996 $aConstructing virtue and vice$92881789 997 $aUNINA