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This study addresses two desiderata of historical emotion research: reflecting on the interdependence of textual functions and the representation of emotions, and acknowledging the interdependence of studies on the premodern and modern periods in the history of emotion. Contemporary research on the history of emotion is characterised by a proliferation of studies on very different eras, authors, themes, texts, and aspects. The enthusiasm and confidence with which situations, actions, and interactions involving emotions in history are discovered, however, has led to overly direct attempts to access the represented objects (emotions/feelings/affects); as a result, too little attention has been paid to the conditions and functions of their representations. That is why this study engages with the emotion research of historians from an unashamedly philological perspective. Such an approach provides, among other things, insights into the varied, often contradictory, observations that can be made about the history of emotion in modernity and premodernity

In dieser Studie werden die Geschlechterdiskurse des späten Mittelalters und der beginnenden Neuzeit erstmals umfassend analysiert: Die vielen, zunächst widersprüchlich erscheinenden Stimmen werden nach den verschiedenen Textsorten geordnet sowie in ihren spezifischen Kommunikationszusammenhängen erörtert. Da der Autor "Frauendiskurs", "Männerdiskurs" und "Ehediskurs" über die traditionellen Epochengrenzen zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit bis ins 16. Jahrhundert verfolgt, erscheint auch die vieldiskutierte Bedeutung der Reformation für die Geschlechterbeziehungen in neuem Licht.

Most studies undertaken so far identify the causes for conceptual differences in marriage treatises of the Early Modern Age in social and religious change. The authors in this volume take an alternative perspective, approaching these differences from a textual angle. Their findings suggest that statements on marriage are not only conditioned by social or religious influences and pressures but also by the communicative and situative parameters governing speech and writing.